Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Comoseridae
Parent taxon: Comoseridae according to S.D. Cairns et al. 2010
See also Morycowa and Decrouez 2006 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Araiophyllum, Chomatoseris, Dactylaraea, Dendraraea, Dermoseris, Disaraea, Eocomoseris, Genabacia, Kobya, Litharaeopsis, Microsolena, Microsolenastraea, Mycetaraea, Partimeandra, Semeloseris, Tricycloseris, Trocharea, Trochoplegma, Hydnophoromeandraraea, Comoseris
Subtaxa: Dimorpharaea aequiseptalis Dimorpharaea burulchiensis Dimorpharaea catalaunica Dimorpharaea convexa Dimorpharaea deickei Dimorpharaea desori Dimorpharaea expansa Dimorpharaea globularis Dimorpharaea japonica Dimorpharaea koechlini Dimorpharaea lehmani Dimorpharaea lentiformis Dimorpharaea lineata Dimorpharaea manchacaensis Dimorpharaea munsteri Dimorpharaea ornata Dimorpharaea stellans Dimorpharaea tosaensis Dimorpharaea williamsonensis
Type: Microsolena koechlini
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (3 collections), Georgia (1), Germany (3), Greece (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Spain (6), Switzerland (1), Ukraine (2), United States (4: New Mexico, Texas)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (4)
• Jurassic of Azerbaijan (1), Czechia (1), France (45), Georgia (4), Germany (4), Greece (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Iran (13), Italy (2), Jordan (1), Morocco (6), Poland (5), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (2), Slovenia (1), Switzerland (7), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (2), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 132 collections including 178 occurrences
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