Family Fungiidae Dana 1846 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae

Parent taxon: Fungiicae according to J. W. Wells 1956

Sister taxa: Cyclolitidae, Micrabaciidae

Subtaxa: Axoseris Cantharellus Ctenactis Cycloseris Danafungia Discotrochus Fungia Funginellastraea Halomitra Heliofungia Herpolitha Hydnophyllon Leptophyllon Lithophyllon Lobactis Parahalomitra Pleuractis Podabacia Polyphyllia Reussiphyllon Sandalolitha Zoopilus

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (7 collections), Cook Islands (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (22), Eritrea (3), India (1), Indonesia (7), Japan (34), Malaysia (1), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (2), North Pacific (1), Pakistan (1), Papua New Guinea (11), Pitcairn (3), Saudi Arabia (12), the Seychelles (3), Sudan (1), Taiwan (3), United States (2: Hawaii), Vanuatu (6)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (6), North Pacific (1), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (1)

• Pliocene of French Polynesia (1), Indonesia (20), Japan (4), Malaysia (1), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (1: Hawaii)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (3)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Brazil (3), Egypt (1), Germany (4), Indonesia (9), Iran (2), Italy (1), Malaysia (2), the Marshall Islands (5), Pakistan (1), Slovakia (1), Tanzania (1), Vanuatu (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Italy (1)

• Eocene of Czechia (2), Germany (1), Hungary (5), Indonesia (1), Italy (3), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Spain (2), Ukraine (2), United States (41: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Greenland (1), Somalia (1)

• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), Gabon (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Ukraine (3)

• Jurassic of France (1)

• Triassic of United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 270 collections including 411 occurrences

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