Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Alternative spelling: Diploastraea
Synonym: Thegioastraea Michelotti 1871
Parent taxon: Diploastraeidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Chevalier 1961, Kiessling 2014, López-Pérez 2005, Perrin et al. 1998, Sepkoski 2002, Tsaparas and Marcopoulou-Diacantoni 2005, Veron 2000 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Diploastraea crassicostata Diploastrea aequalicostata Diploastrea aequalis Diploastrea alternicosta Diploastrea applanata Diploastrea bacata Diploastrea burdigalensis Diploastrea coronata Diploastrea costata Diploastrea crassicostata Diploastrea crassolamellata Diploastrea diversiformis Diploastrea heliopora Diploastrea hilli Diploastrea incerta Diploastrea italica Diploastrea magnifica Diploastrea miocenica Diploastrea multisepta Diploastrea reussii Diploastrea roasendai Diploastrea rosacea Diploastrea speciosa Diploastrea superficialis Diploastrea taurinensis Diploastrea variabilis Diploastrea vaughani
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Cook Islands (1), Eritrea (1), Guam (1), India (1), Indonesia (3), Japan (3), Kenya (1), Madagascar (1), New Caledonia (1), Papua New Guinea (8), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (2), the Philippines (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (12), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (2)
• Miocene of Colombia (4), Egypt (5), Fiji (2), France (15), Greece (4), Indonesia (6), Iran (1), Italy (1), Libya (1), Malta (1), Papua New Guinea (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1), Somalia (1)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (12), Cuba (2), France (1), Iran (2), Italy (3), Jamaica (2), Libya (1), Mexico (4), Panama (1), Puerto Rico (3), Somalia (1), United States (1: Georgia), Venezuela (3)
• Eocene of Indonesia (2), Jamaica (1), Panama (2)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Tanzania (1), United States (3: Texas)
Total: 137 collections including 208 occurrences
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