Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Synonym: Oxyphyllia Yabe and Eguchi 1935
Parent taxon: Lobophylliidae according to Dai and Horng 2009
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Acanthastrea, Australomussa, Cynarina, Lobophyllia, Moseleya, Oxypora, Symphyllia
Subtaxa: Echinophyllia aspera Echinophyllia echinata Echinophyllia javana Echinophyllia robusta Echinophyllia sassellensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Cook Islands (1 collection), Eritrea (1), French Polynesia (2), Japan (12), Kenya (1), Maldives (1), Mauritius (1), New Caledonia (1), Saudi Arabia (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (2), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene of Indonesia (4), Iran (2), Japan (1)
• Oligocene of France (1)
• Cretaceous of Sweden (1)
Total: 36 collections including 40 occurrences
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