Family Oculinidae Gray 1847 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae

Parent taxon: Faviina according to R. Baron-Szabo 2006

See also Squires 1999 and Wells 1956

Sister taxa: Cladocoridae, Columastreidae, Diplocteniopsidae, Eugyridae, Faviicae, Heliastraeidae, Isastreidae, Misistellidae, Mussidae, Pamiroseriidae, Phyllocoeniidae, Placocoeniidae, Placosmiliidae, Stylophyllicae, Tropidastraeidae

Subtaxa: Astrhelia Bantamia Bathelia Ennallohelia Galaxeinae Madrepora Oculina Oculininae Palaeohelia Schizoculina Sclerhelia

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Argentina (2), Bermuda (1), Cape Verde (1), Cayman Islands (1), Costa Rica (2), the Dominican Republic (4), Greece (6), Indonesia (1), Ireland (1), Italy (2), Maldives (2), North Atlantic (1), Panama (1), United States (5: Florida), Vanuatu (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of Chile (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), United States (4: California, Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)

• Miocene of the Czech Republic (1), France (5), Grenada (1), Indonesia (7), Italy (5), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), New Zealand (13), Papua New Guinea (1), Poland (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Maryland)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), France (1), Hungary (4), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), United States (20: Louisiana, Mississippi, Washington)

• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)

• Eocene of Egypt (2), France (3), Italy (1), New Zealand (8), Peru (2), Tonga (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (19: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), China (1), Denmark (8), Egypt (2), Greenland (6), Iran (4), New Zealand (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (5), Spain (1), United States (10: Alabama, California, South Carolina)

• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Japan (1), Madagascar (2), New Zealand (5), Poland (3), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)

• Permian of Italy (1)

Total: 218 collections including 251 occurrences

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