Family Dendrophylliidae Gray 1847 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae

Parent taxon: Dendrophylliina according to J. W. Wells 1956

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Aplopsammia Areopsammia Astroides Balanophyllia Bathypsammia Blastozopsammia Cahuzacopsammia Cairnsipsammia Calostylopsis Dendrophyllia Dichopsammia Duncanopsammia Eguchipsammia Enallopsammia Endopachys Endopsammia Heteropsammia Lamellophyllia Leptopsammia Lobopsammia Makridinophyllia Notophyllia Paleoastroides Reussopsammia Rhabdopsammia Rhizopsammia Stereopsammia Stichopsammia Thecopsammia Tubastraea Turbinaria Wadeopsammia

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (7 collections), Cape Verde (6), Costa Rica (2), Egypt (4), France (3), Greece (3), Indonesia (2), Italy (3), Japan (21), Kenya (3), Maldives (2), Mexico (3), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (5), North Pacific (1), Pakistan (1), Palau (1), Saudi Arabia (2), South Atlantic (12), Sudan (1), Taiwan (2), United States (18: California, Florida, Oregon), Vanuatu (3)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (2), North Pacific (1), the Philippines (1), Taiwan (1), United States (2: California)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Egypt (2), France (4), Indonesia (7), Italy (2), Malaysia (1), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Portugal (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Taiwan (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: California)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3), New Zealand (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (8), Belgium (1), Brazil (3), Bulgaria (1), Czechia (1), the Dominican Republic (3), Egypt (3), Fiji (3), France (24), Germany (12), Grenada (4), Hungary (1), Indonesia (5), Iran (2), Italy (8), Japan (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (12), Pakistan (1), Poland (3), Portugal (2), Romania (2), Somalia (6), Spain (2), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (1), Türkiye (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (2), France (4), Germany (1), Greece (1), Hungary (5), Iran (1), Italy (1), Malta (3), Mexico (1), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (3), Somalia (5), United States (15: California, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Washington)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Cote D'Ivoire (2), Czechia (2), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (6), Peru (2), Poland (3), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (2), Tonga (1), Ukraine (1), United States (142: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Austria (2), Denmark (16), Egypt (1), France (1), Greenland (3), Iran (2), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (7), Slovenia (26), Somalia (1), Spain (2), Sweden (1), Ukraine (2), United States (27: Alabama, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Austria (3), China (1), India (1), Jamaica (1), Madagascar (5), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (5), Oman (1), Ukraine (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (4: Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of Slovenia (1)

Total: 608 collections including 888 occurrences

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