Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Alternative spelling: Dimorphastraea
Synonym: Leptophyllastraea Oppenheim 1930
Parent taxon: Latomeandridae according to R.C. Baron-Szabo 2021
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Beauvais 1986, Kiessling 2014, López-Pérez 2005, Löser 2010, Roniewicz 1976, Sepkoski 2002, Turnsek 1997 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Aggomorphastraea, Balkhanomeandra, Brachyseris, Collignonastraea, Comophyllia, Digitosmilia, Ellipsocoenia, Fungiaphyllia, Fungiastraea, Latiastrea, Latomeandra, Loboseris, Microphyllia, Microphylliopsis, Mixastraea, Ovalastrea, Periseris, Thalamocaeniopsis, Thamnoseris, Trigerastraea, Trochoplegmopsis, Valliculastraea, Vallimeandra
Subtaxa: Dimorphastraea corallina Dimorphastraea cupuliformis Dimorphastraea fallax Dimorphastraea radshensis Dimorphastraea renevieri Dimorphastraea triadica Dimorphastraea vasiformis Dimorphastrea bellula Dimorphastrea composita Dimorphastrea concentrica Dimorphastrea conica Dimorphastrea cosmanni Dimorphastrea delaunayi Dimorphastrea dubia Dimorphastrea excavata Dimorphastrea explanata Dimorphastrea fungiformis Dimorphastrea glomerata Dimorphastrea grandiflora Dimorphastrea heteromorpha Dimorphastrea irradians Dimorphastrea irregulare Dimorphastrea lamellosa Dimorphastrea mitodaensis Dimorphastrea multisepta Dimorphastrea parvistella Dimorphastrea petalophyes Dimorphastrea radiata Dimorphastrea regularis Dimorphastrea scutellum Dimorphastrea solida Dimorphastrea speciosa Dimorphastrea stantoni Dimorphastrea subturonensis Dimorphastrea sulcosa Dimorphastrea tendagurensis Dimorphastrea tenuistriata Dimorphastrea tenustriata Dimorphastrea toucasi Dimorphastrea udzlourensis Dimorphastrea vaughani Dimorphastrea waehneri
Type: Dimorphastrea grandiflora
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Italy (1)
• Eocene of Czechia (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (8), Bulgaria (6), China (1), Czechia (1), France (4), Georgia (2), Germany (5), Greece (1), India (1), Iran (2), Japan (3), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Slovenia (4), Spain (8), Sweden (1), Switzerland (6), Tanzania (2), Turkmenistan (3), Ukraine (3), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), Japan (1), Poland (1)
• Jurassic of Azerbaijan (1), Belarus (1), Czechia (1), France (1), Georgia (1), Germany (6), Greece (1), India (1), Iran (2), Morocco (1), Poland (2), Portugal (6), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia (3), Spain (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 117 collections including 156 occurrences
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