Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Synonym: Teleiophyllia Duncan 1864
Parent taxon: Faviinae according to A. F. Budd et al. 2012
See also Johnson 1998, Kiessling 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Veron 2000 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Colpophyllia, Desmocladia, Diploria, Grumiphyllia, Indosmilia, Laterophyllia, Mussismilia, Nefocoenia, Petrophylliella, Pseudodiploria, Variabilifavia
Subtaxa: Manicina areolata Manicina geisteri Manicina grandis Manicina hydnophoroidea Manicina jungi Manicina pliocenica Manicina puntagordensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (3 collections), Belize (3), Bonaire (2), Cayman Islands (32), Costa Rica (24), Dominica (1), the Dominican Republic (8), Haiti (4), Jamaica (3), Panama (4), Saint Kitts and Nevis (1), United States (5: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (6), Jamaica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (1), Costa Rica (7), the Dominican Republic (13), Jamaica (2), United States (2: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (5)
• Miocene of Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (31), Panama (7)
• Eocene of Slovenia (1)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1)
Total: 169 collections including 219 occurrences
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