Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Parent taxon: Faviicae according to J. W. Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Anthemiphylliidae, Faviidae, Merulinidae, Montlivaltiidae, 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), Cayman Islands (20), Colombia (7), Costa Rica (29), the Dominican Republic (13), Haiti (1), Jamaica (6), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Montserrat (1), the Netherlands Antilles (12), 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)
• 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), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (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: 389 collections including 566 occurrences