Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Parent taxon: Lobophylliidae according to Dai and Horng 2009
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Veron 2000
Sister taxa: Acanthastrea, Australomussa, Cynarina, Echinophyllia, Lobophyllia, Moseleya, Oxypora
Subtaxa: Symphyllia agaricia Symphyllia confusa Symphyllia densium Symphyllia erythraea Symphyllia molengraaffi Symphyllia radians Symphyllia recta Symphyllia valenciennesii
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (12 collections), Eritrea (1), Indonesia (3), Japan (7), Kenya (5), New Caledonia (4), Papua New Guinea (6), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (1), Vanuatu (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1), the Philippines (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (8), Japan (2), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene of Indonesia (1), Iran (2)
• Oligocene of Italy (2)
Total: 60 collections including 69 occurrences
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