Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Alternative spelling: Solenastraea
Synonym: Dachiardia Duncan 1880
Parent taxon: Faviidae according to C. L. Powell 2008
See also Duncan 1880, Kiessling 2008, Kosnik 2002, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002 and Veron 2000
Sister taxa: Agathiphylliinae, Dactylosmilia, Defrancia, Dictyoastraea, Favia, Hadrophyllia, Ksiazkiewiczia, Montastreinae, Sakalavastraea, Thysanus
Subtaxa: Solenastraea turonensis Solenastrea anomala Solenastrea bournoni Solenastrea densa Solenastrea desmoulinsi Solenastrea fairbanksi Solenastrea hyades Solenastrea pleiades Solenastrea romettensis Solenastrea schafferi Solenastrea semarangensis Solenastrea tizeroutinensis Solenastrea uananensis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), the Dominican Republic (1), Haiti (3), Montserrat (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Panama (5), Sudan (1), United States (6: Florida), Venezuela (3), Virgin Islands (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (5), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (10), Haiti (2), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands Antilles (12), United States (9: California, Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Bulgaria (1), Cuba (1), Cyprus (2), the Dominican Republic (24), Egypt (2), France (6), Greece (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (2), Italy (4), Jamaica (1), Libya (2), Morocco (5), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (3), Sri Lanka (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkey (5), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Jamaica (2), Somalia (1)
• Eocene of Hungary (3), Indonesia (1), Papua New Guinea (1)
Total: 156 collections including 174 occurrences
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