Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Synonyms: Ahrdorffia Trauth 1911, Stylomaeandra de Fromentel 1877
Parent taxon: Thamnasteriidae according to H. Löser 2010
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Baron-Szabo 2006, Beauvais 1986, Morycowa and Marcopoulou-Diacantoni 2002, Roniewicz 1976, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Corbariastraea, Dendrastrea, Dimorphofungia, Polyastropsis, Recticostastraea, Stereocaenia, Thamnasteria
Subtaxa: Ahrdorffia ornata Mesomorpha andrusovi Mesomorpha bussoni Mesomorpha chaetetoides Mesomorpha dubia Mesomorpha duncani Mesomorpha excavata Mesomorpha magna Mesomorpha mammillata Mesomorpha minima Mesomorpha newpassensis Mesomorpha pesudomammosa Mesomorpha pseudomammosa Mesomorpha punctata Mesomorpha pyanovskae Mesomorpha simionescui Mesomorpha urgonensis Mesomorpha vaughani
Type: Porites mammillata
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (1: Georgia collection)
• Eocene of Spain (1)
• Paleocene of Pakistan (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (2), the Czech Republic (4), France (9), Georgia (1), Germany (6), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Mexico (1), Oman (1), Poland (2), Romania (2), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Spain (9), Switzerland (2), Turkmenistan (3), United States (3: Texas), Uzbekistan (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Azerbaijan (1), France (3), Morocco (1), Romania (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 74 collections including 77 occurrences
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