Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Synonym: Coelohelia Vaughan 1900
Parent taxon: Oculinidae according to R. Baron-Szabo 2006
See also Sepkoski 2002, Vaughan 1900, Wells 1941 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Astrhelia, Bantamia, Bathelia, Ennallohelia, Galaxeinae, Madrepora, Oculininae, Palaeohelia, Schizoculina, Sclerhelia
Subtaxa: Oculina alabamensis Oculina aldrichi Oculina antiqua Oculina becki Oculina conferta Oculina diffusa Oculina harrisi Oculina hobleyi Oculina nefrens Oculina oamaruensis Oculina olssoni Oculina osiris Oculina panzana Oculina parvistella Oculina peruviana Oculina robusta Oculina sarasotana Oculina singleyi Oculina smithi Oculina suprajurensis Oculina umbellata Oculina valenciennesi Oculina varicosa Oculina virgosa Oculina wagneriana
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bermuda (1 collection), Cayman Islands (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Panama (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), New Zealand (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)
• Miocene of Italy (2), New Zealand (12), Papua New Guinea (1), Poland (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), France (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (2), United States (2: Mississippi)
• Eocene of New Zealand (2), Peru (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Florida, Texas)
• Paleocene of Denmark (8), Egypt (2), Greenland (6), Iran (4), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (5), Spain (1), United States (9: Alabama, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Madagascar (1), New Zealand (4), the United Kingdom (1)
• Permian of Italy (1)
Total: 91 collections including 96 occurrences
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