Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Alternative spelling: Latiastraea
Synonym: Thalamocoenia d'Orbigny 1850
Full reference: L. Beauvais. 1964. Etude stratigraphique et paleontologique des formations a madreporaires du Jurassique superieur du Jura et de l'est du Basin de Paris. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 100:1-288
Parent taxon: Latomeandridae according to W. Kiessling et al. 2011
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Baron-Szabo et al. 2003, Beauvais 1966, Löser and Raeder 1995, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Aggomorphastraea, Brachyseris, Collignonastraea, Comophyllia, Digitosmilia, Dimorphastrea, Ellipsocoenia, Fungiaphyllia, Fungiastraea, Latomeandra, Loboseris, Microphyllia, Microphylliopsis, Mixastraea, Ovalastrea, Periseris, Thalamocaeniopsis, Thamnoseris, Trigerastraea, Trochoplegmopsis, Valliculastraea, Vallimeandra
Subtaxa: Latiastraea magna Latiastrea baumbergeri Latiastrea bendukidzeae Latiastrea canavarii Latiastrea foulassensis Latiastrea gironensis Latiastrea greppini Latiastrea magna Latiastrea minima Latiastrea mucronata Latiastrea pakongensis Latiastrea paronai Latiastrea pjtkovi Latiastrea somaensis Latiastrea valfinensis Latiastrea variabilis Latiastrea whitneyi
Type: Latiastrea foulassensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (1 collection), Georgia (5), Germany (2), Greece (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Mexico (2), Poland (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (4), Switzerland (2), United States (2: Texas), Uzbekistan (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (1)
• Jurassic of China (1), the Czech Republic (2), Ethiopia (7), France (10), Georgia (2), Germany (4), Greece (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Poland (5), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovenia (2), Spain (2), Tunisia (1)
Total: 73 collections including 88 occurrences
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