Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Parent taxon: Faviicae according to J. W. Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Anthemiphylliidae, Faviidae, Merulinidae, Pectiniidae, Rhizangiidae, Tropiphyllidae
Subtaxa: Dichocoenia Dichocoeniinae Euphylliinae Eusmilia Meandrina Meandrininae Progyrosmilia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (5 collections), Barbados (6), Belize (2), Bonaire (6), Cayman Islands (20), Colombia (7), Costa Rica (29), Curaçao (6), the Dominican Republic (13), Haiti (1), Jamaica (6), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Montserrat (1), Panama (29), Taiwan (1), United States (6: Florida, Texas), Virgin Islands (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Bahamas (1), Costa Rica (4), Jamaica (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (2), Costa Rica (13), the Dominican Republic (1), Haiti (3), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (5), Germany (1), Haiti (2), Indonesia (9), Iran (5), Italy (2), Japan (1), New Zealand (4), Panama (10), Sint Maarten (1)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), France (2), Libya (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), Somalia (2), Türkiye (2), United States (2: Washington)
• Eocene of Cuba (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (8), Jamaica (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Saint Barthélemy (1), Slovenia (1)
• Paleocene of Egypt (3), Iran (2), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (3), Senegal (1), Slovenia (2), Somalia (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Armenia (2), Austria (7), Azerbaijan (2), Bulgaria (5), China (1), Croatia (2), Czechia (6), Egypt (9), France (17), Georgia (1), Germany (5), Greece (7), India (2), Iran (4), Italy (4), Jamaica (10), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (7), Oman (10), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia (2), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (4), Spain (1), Turkmenistan (1), the United Arab Emirates (3), United States (1: Maryland)
• Jurassic of France (1), Iran (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 390 collections including 567 occurrences