Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Veron 2000
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, Aquitanastraea, Astrea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Cyphastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, Dipsastraea, Edwardsastraea, Erythrastrea, Favites, Goniastrea, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Leptoria, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Oulophyllia, Paraclavarina, Paragoniastrea, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia, Antillophyllia, Fungophyllia, Echinomorpha
Subtaxa: Echinopora crassatina Echinopora forskaliana Echinopora fruticulosa Echinopora gemmacea Echinopora hirsutissima Echinopora lamellosa Echinopora mammiformis Echinopora miocenica Echinopora pacificus Echinopora pelarangensis Echinopora porosa
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (5 collections), Djibouti (1), Egypt (26), Eritrea (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (8), Jordan (1), Kenya (14), Mauritius (4), New Caledonia (1), Pakistan (1), Saudi Arabia (8), the Seychelles (1), South Pacific (3), Sri Lanka (1), Sudan (1), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (3)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (6), Malaysia (1), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (4)
• Miocene of Egypt (1), Fiji (1), Indonesia (9), Iran (1), Libya (1), Pakistan (1)
• Eocene of Italy (1)
Total: 110 collections including 121 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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