Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Alternative spelling: Columactinastrea
Synonym: Placocolumastrea Reig Oriol 1989
Parent taxon: Actinastraeidae according to D. K. Pandey et al. 2007
See also Baron-Szabo 2006, Bover-Arnal et al. 2012, Kiessling 2008, Kiessling 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Turnsek 1997
Sister taxa: Actinastrea, Agrostyliastraea, Allocoenia, Allocoeniopsis, Araucanastrea, Chondrocoenia, Coenastraea, Floriastrea, Holocoenia, Protostephanastrea, Sedekastrea, Stelidioseris, Stephanastrea, Texastrea
Subtaxa: Columactinastraea anthonii Columactinastraea fallax Columactinastraea favulus Columactinastraea formosa Columactinastraea formosissima Columactinastraea pygmaea Columactinastraea rennensis Columactinastraea torallolensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (4 collections), Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), Georgia (1), Germany (3), Greece (1), Iran (2), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (2), Oman (2), Portugal (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (2), Somalia (1), Spain (4), the United Arab Emirates (1)
• Jurassic of the Czech Republic (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 32 collections including 38 occurrences
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