Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Alternative spelling: Meandrarea
Full reference: A. Étallon. 1859. Etudes paléontologiques sur le Haut-Jura. Rayonnés du Corallien. Mémoires de la Société d'Emulation du département du Doubs 3(3):401-553
Parent taxon: Haplaraeidae according to E. Roniewicz 1976
See also Bendukidze 1949, Sepkoski 2002 and Turnsek 1997
Sister taxa: Actinaraea, Camptodocis, Confusastraraea, Diplaraea, Haplaraea, Haplaraeinae, Leptophyllaraea, Meandrophylliinae, Physoseris, Pleurocora, Pseudofavia, Summigaraea
Subtaxa: Meandraraea cerebriformis Meandraraea duboisi Meandraraea gazaensis Meandraraea granulata Meandraraea gresslyi Meandraraea hiraigaensis Meandraraea laminata Meandraraea lorioli Meandraraea media Meandraraea mitodaensis Meandraraea miyakoensis Meandraraea pelissieri Meandraraea plummeri Meandraraea robusta Meandraraea slatteri Meandraraea somaensis Meandraraea somalica Meandraraea subataciana Meandraraea sulcata Meandraraea tulae Meandrarea nipponica Meandrarea tuberosa
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (7 collections), Germany (3), Greece (2), Japan (5), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), Poland (3), Serbia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (1)
• Jurassic of Czechia (1), France (6), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Japan (1), Morocco (1), Poland (2), Portugal (4), Romania (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (2), Somalia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (5), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 65 collections including 72 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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