Family Siderastreidae Vaughan and Wells 1943 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae

Alternative spelling: Siderastraeidae

Parent taxon: Fungiina according to L. Beauvais 1986

See also Baron-Szabo 2002 and Wells 1956

Sister taxa: Acrosmiliidae, Agariciicae, Andemantastraeidae, Astraeomorphidae, Astraraeidae, Dermosmiliidae, Felixaraeidae, Fungiacyathidae, Fungiicae, Funginellidae, Haplaraeidae, Kobyastraeidae, Microbaciidae, Pachyphyllidae, Poriticae, Procyclolitidae, Rhipidastraeidae, Synastraeidae

Subtaxa: Astraeofungia Eosiderastrea Hindeastraea Koilomorpha Maeandroseris Palaeosiderofungia Pironastrea Psammocora Pseudosiderastrea Siderastrea Siderastreites Siderofungia Sideroseris Siderosmilia Stephanomorpha Synhelia

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Angola (2 collections), Australia (4), the Bahamas (4), Barbados (12), Belize (2), Bermuda (1), Bonaire (3), Brazil (4), Cape Verde (11), Cayman Islands (26), Colombia (11), Costa Rica (15), Curaçao (22), Dominica (1), the Dominican Republic (9), Egypt (7), French Polynesia (3), Guam (1), Haiti (7), India (1), Indonesia (3), Jamaica (4), Japan (7), Malaysia (1), Mexico (5), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (9), Panama (21), Pitcairn (2), Saint Kitts and Nevis (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (2), United States (15: Florida, Hawaii), Venezuela (1), Virgin Islands (4)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (7), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of the Bahamas (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (10), Curaçao (5), the Dominican Republic (1), Haiti (3), Indonesia (7), Jamaica (1), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (10: California, Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (10), Anguilla (6), Austria (1), the Bahamas (2), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (5), Cuba (1), Cyprus (2), the Dominican Republic (5), France (14), Germany (1), Greece (1), Grenada (1), Haiti (1), Hungary (3), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Italy (9), Japan (1), Malta (1), Mexico (4), Morocco (5), Panama (10), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Puerto Rico (2), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Sint Maarten (1), Slovakia (2), Somalia (1), Spain (8), Trinidad and Tobago (6), Türkiye (5), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Florida), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (3: Florida)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (5), Canada (1: British Columbia), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Iran (1), Italy (7), Jamaica (2), Malta (1), Mexico (2), Puerto Rico (3), Somalia (1), Spain (1), Türkiye (1), United States (5: California, Georgia, Washington), Venezuela (3)

• Eocene of Angola (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Czechia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (9), Mexico (4), Panama (1), Spain (5), Ukraine (2), United States (2: California, Washington)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Egypt (2), France (1), Pakistan (1), Puerto Rico (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (1), United States (2: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of Austria (4), Bulgaria (3), Czechia (19), France (2), Georgia (1), Germany (7), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Jamaica (8), Jordan (1), Mexico (19), Oman (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (2), Serbia (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (5), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (1), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1), United States (9: Texas), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (2)

• Jurassic of Germany (1), Madagascar (1), Morocco (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (1)

Total: 587 collections including 697 occurrences

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