Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Synonym: Parascolymia
Parent taxon: Mussinae according to A. F. Budd et al. 2012
See also Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2021, Sepkoski 2002 and Veron 2000
Sister taxa: Isophyllia, Mussa, Mycetophyllia
Subtaxa: Parascolymia bracherti Scolymia australis Scolymia cubensis Scolymia lacera Scolymia vitiensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Cayman Islands (5 collections), Costa Rica (5), the Dominican Republic (1), Jamaica (2), New Zealand (6), Panama (1), Pitcairn (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Jamaica (1)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Netherlands Antilles (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Colombia (1), Iran (4), Panama (3), Turkey (2)
Total: 38 collections including 43 occurrences
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