Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Synonym: Ulophyllia Milne-Edwards 1857
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Veron 2000 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, Aquitanastraea, Astrea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Cyphastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, Dipsastraea, Echinopora, Edwardsastraea, Erythrastrea, Favites, Goniastrea, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Leptoria, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Paraclavarina, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia
Subtaxa: Oulophyllia angustivallis Oulophyllia bennettae Oulophyllia californica Oulophyllia crispa
Type: Oulophyllia crispa
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Guam (2), Japan (6), New Caledonia (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (3), Tanzania (1)
• Oligocene of Italy (3)
• Eocene of United States (1: California)
Total: 28 collections including 31 occurrences
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