Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Synonym: Silingastraea Liao 1982
Full reference: E. Roniewicz. 1976. Les scléractiniaires du Jurassique supérieur de la Dobrogea centrale, Roumanie. Palaeontologia Polonica 34:17-121
Parent taxon: Stylinidae according to E. Roniewicz 1976
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Löser and Liao 2001, Morsch 1996, Sepkoski 2002 and Turnsek 1997
Sister taxa: Acanthocoenia, Adelocoenia, Aplophyllia, Australoseris, Bilaterocoenia, Convexastrea, Cyathophorinae, Eugyriopsis, Euheliinae, Goniocora, Keriophyllia, Proaplophyllia, Procyathophora, Pseudocoeniinae, Schizosmiliopsis, Sinaimeandra, Stylina, Stylininae, Stylohelia, Stylosmilia
Subtaxa: Pseudocoeniopsis jurassica Pseudocoeniopsis longiseptata Pseudocoeniopsis uhligi Silingastraea japonica Silingastraea qiekanensis Silingastraea shimoheiensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (2 collections), Czechia (1), France (1), Greece (3), Japan (2), Serbia (1)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Poland (3), Romania (2), Slovenia (4), Thailand (1)
Total: 21 collections including 26 occurrences
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