Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Alternative spelling: Montastrea
Synonyms: Heliastreopsis Chevalier 1954, Phyllocoenia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848, Phyllocoeniopsis Alloiteau 1957
Parent taxon: Montastraeidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Baron-Szabo 2006, Baron-Szabo 2009, Eliasova 1989, Hladil et al. 1991, Kiessling et al. 2011, Kosnik 2002, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Squires and Demetrion 1992, Turnsek 1997, Veron 2000, Wells 1941 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Montastraea cavernosa Montastraea cylindrica Montastraea endothecata Montastraea faveolata Montastraea franksi Montastrea alpina Montastrea antilliana Montastrea bachmayeri Montastrea brevis Montastrea bumi Montastrea cavernosa Montastrea colemani Montastrea costata Montastrea cribraria Montastrea cubana Montastrea cylindrica Montastrea davisina Montastrea endothecata Montastrea eocenica Montastrea exsculpta Montastrea felixi Montastrea gabbi Montastrea imperatoris Montastrea inaequalis Montastrea intermedia Montastrea irradians Montastrea katzeri Montastrea lauensis Montastrea laurae Montastrea lepidoides Montastrea lilli Montastrea lyonsi Montastrea nodosa Montastrea orbitoides Montastrea pecosensis Montastrea pediculata Montastrea peninsularis Montastrea pomeli Montastrea prima Montastrea roemeriana Montastrea rotunda Montastrea rudis Montastrea schuberti Montastrea schweinfurthi Montastrea tabulata Montastrea tampaensis Montastrea tchihatcheffi Montastrea texana Montastrea trinitatis Phyllocoenia sculpta
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), Australia (9), the Bahamas (12), Barbados (16), Belize (5), Bermuda (1), Cayman Islands (23), Colombia (11), Costa Rica (63), Dominica (1), the Dominican Republic (6), French Polynesia (7), Guam (1), Haiti (2), India (2), Jamaica (7), Japan (5), Mexico (1), Montserrat (1), the Netherlands Antilles (17), New Caledonia (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Panama (17), Pitcairn (2), Saint Kitts and Nevis (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Sudan (1), United States (12: Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (3), Virgin Islands (2), Virgin Islands (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Bahamas (1), Costa Rica (7), Jamaica (1)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (4), Costa Rica (11), the Dominican Republic (14), Haiti (1), Indonesia (3), Japan (3), the Netherlands Antilles (3), United States (2: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (10), the Netherlands Antilles (1), United States (1: Puerto Rico)
• Miocene of Anguilla (8), Austria (1), the Bahamas (1), Colombia (14), Cuba (1), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (26), Egypt (7), Fiji (1), France (7), Grenada (2), Haiti (2), Indonesia (2), Iran (8), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Mexico (5), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Panama (32), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Puerto Rico (2), Romania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (9), Turkey (5), Ukraine (1), United States (2: Florida), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (8), the Dominican Republic (1), Greece (4), Haiti (3), Iran (1), Italy (35), Jamaica (2), Libya (1), Mexico (3), Puerto Rico (3), Somalia (2), Spain (2), Turkey (4), United States (3: Florida, Georgia, Texas), Venezuela (4)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene of Austria (1), Croatia (2), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (5), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), Spain (1)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), Spain (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (3), Croatia (1), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (1), Georgia (2), Greece (4), India (1), Japan (2), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), United States (8: New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 577 collections including 835 occurrences
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