Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Alternative spelling: Maeandrina
Synonym: Maeandra Oken 1815
Parent taxon: Meandrinidae according to A. F. Budd et al. 2012
See also Kosnik 2002, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Wells 1954 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Dichocoenia, Dichocoeniinae, Euphylliinae, Eusmilia, Meandrininae, Progyrosmilia
Subtaxa: Meandrina africana Meandrina alahuelensis Meandrina antiguensis Meandrina brasiliensis Meandrina filograna Meandrina meandrites
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (2 collections), Cayman Islands (7), Colombia (5), Costa Rica (10), the Dominican Republic (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands Antilles (5), Panama (9), Taiwan (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Panama (5)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), France (1), Libya (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), Somalia (2), Turkey (2)
• Eocene of Italy (2), Jamaica (3), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), Pakistan (1)
Total: 86 collections including 89 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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