Superfamily Fungiicae Dana 1846 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia

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

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

Subtaxa: Cyclolitidae Fungiidae Micrabaciidae

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (7 collections), China (1), Cook Islands (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (22), Eritrea (3), India (1), Indonesia (7), Japan (39), Malaysia (1), Maldives (1), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (1), Papua New Guinea (11), Pitcairn (3), Saudi Arabia (12), the Seychelles (3), Sudan (1), Taiwan (3), United States (2: Hawaii), Vanuatu (7)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), Egypt (1), Indonesia (6), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Taiwan (1)

• Pliocene of French Polynesia (1), Indonesia (20), Japan (4), Malaysia (1), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (1: Hawaii)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (3)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Brazil (3), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (1), Germany (24), Indonesia (10), Iran (2), Italy (5), Malaysia (2), the Marshall Islands (5), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (3), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Tanzania (1), Vanuatu (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), France (1), Hungary (7), Italy (1), the Netherlands (2)

• Eocene of the Czech Republic (2), Germany (1), Hungary (5), Indonesia (1), Italy (3), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Spain (3), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (47: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Egypt (1), Greenland (1), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (1), Somalia (1), Ukraine (1)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Armenia (1), Austria (2), Bahrain (1), Bulgaria (1), Cuba (2), the Czech Republic (11), Egypt (9), Gabon (1), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Greece (2), Iran (2), Israel (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (13), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Madagascar (2), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (10), Oman (7), Poland (1), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (6), the United Arab Emirates (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (129: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of France (1)

• Triassic of Italy (1), United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 546 collections including 716 occurrences

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