Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Synonym: Plesiothamnasteria Alloiteau 1957
Parent taxon: Siderastreidae according to J. W. Wells 1956
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Clark and Arnold 1923, Faustino 1931, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002 and Turnsek 1997
Sister taxa: Astraeofungia, Eosiderastrea, Hindeastraea, Koilomorpha, Maeandroseris, Palaeosiderofungia, Pironastrea, Psammocora, Pseudosiderastrea, Siderastreites, Siderofungia, Sideroseris, Siderosmilia, Stephanomorpha, Synhelia
Subtaxa: Siderastrea (Siderastrea) Siderastrea adkinsi Siderastrea banksi Siderastrea bertrandiana Siderastrea clarki Siderastrea columnaris Siderastrea conferta Siderastrea crenulata Siderastrea dalli Siderastrea dubiosa Siderastrea froehlichiana Siderastrea grandis Siderastrea hillsboroensis Siderastrea italica Siderastrea mendenhalli Siderastrea micrommata Siderastrea miocenica Siderastrea pliocenica Siderastrea propitia Siderastrea radcliffi Siderastrea radians Siderastrea savignyana Siderastrea scotia Siderastrea senecta Siderastrea siderea Siderastrea silecensis Siderastrea splendida Siderastrea stellata Siderastrea tuckerae Siderastrea vancouverensis Siderastrea washingtonensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (2 collections), the Bahamas (4), Barbados (12), Belize (2), Bermuda (1), Brazil (4), Cape Verde (6), Cayman Islands (26), Colombia (11), Costa Rica (14), Dominica (1), the Dominican Republic (9), Egypt (2), Haiti (7), Jamaica (4), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands Antilles (25), New Caledonia (2), Panama (17), Saint Kitts and Nevis (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (2), United States (14: Florida), Venezuela (1), Virgin Islands (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (7), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (10), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Haiti (3), Indonesia (6), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands Antilles (5), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (10: California, Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (10), Anguilla (6), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (5), Cyprus (2), the Dominican Republic (5), France (15), Germany (1), Greece (1), Grenada (1), Haiti (1), Hungary (2), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Italy (10), Malta (1), Mexico (4), Morocco (5), Panama (5), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (2), Somalia (1), Spain (8), Trinidad and Tobago (3), Turkey (5), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), Costa Rica (1), France (1), Iran (1), Italy (5), Jamaica (2), Mexico (2), Puerto Rico (3), Somalia (1), United States (5: California, Georgia, Washington), Venezuela (3)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Italy (3), Mexico (3), Spain (3), United States (2: California, Washington)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Egypt (2), Puerto Rico (1), Slovenia (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (2), Germany (1), Jamaica (7), Mexico (2), Oman (1), Slovenia (1), United States (2: Texas)
Total: 400 collections including 455 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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