Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Synonyms: Aphrastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848, Ellasmoastraea Michelotti 1871, Metastraea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857, Metastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857, Plesiophyllia Michelotti 1871, Prionastraea
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Chevalier 1961, Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2008, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Veron 2000 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, Aquitanastraea, Astrea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Cyphastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, Dipsastraea, Echinopora, Edwardsastraea, Erythrastrea, Goniastrea, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Leptoria, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Oulophyllia, Paraclavarina, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia
Subtaxa: Favites abdita Favites acuticollis Favites ambigua Favites autignacensis Favites borneensis Favites carryensis Favites chinensis Favites complanata Favites crassiseptata Favites densisepta Favites detecta Favites flexuosa Favites gabbi Favites halicora Favites inaequiseptata Favites macrocalyx Favites magnificata Favites magnistellata Favites mexicana Favites micropentagona Favites mimbastensis Favites neglecta Favites neugeboreni Favites neuvillei Favites oligocenica Favites pauciseptata Favites pentagona Favites polygonalis Favites rhomboidea Favites rotundata Favites spinosa Favites stylifera Favites taruensis Favites tesserifera Favites valenciennesii Favites verbeeki Favites yamanarii
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (53 collections), China (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (31), Eritrea (2), Fiji (1), French Polynesia (1), Guam (1), India (5), Indonesia (7), Iran (4), Israel (1), Japan (39), Jordan (3), Kenya (2), Mauritius (1), New Caledonia (6), New Zealand (6), Pakistan (5), Papua New Guinea (11), the Philippines (2), Saudi Arabia (14), Somalia (1), Sri Lanka (2), Sudan (1), Taiwan (3), Vanuatu (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (3), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (15), Japan (3), Malaysia (3), Papua New Guinea (1), Taiwan (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (2), Malaysia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (1), Bulgaria (1), Cyprus (2), Egypt (9), Fiji (5), France (19), Greece (6), Indonesia (7), Iran (7), Israel (1), Italy (5), Japan (2), Libya (1), Morocco (3), Pakistan (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Portugal (1), Romania (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (4), Sudan (1), Turkey (5), United States Minor Outlying Islands (1)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (4), France (3), Greece (2), Iran (2), Italy (7), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Puerto Rico (3), Somalia (1), Turkey (4), United States (1: Georgia)
• Eocene of Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Pakistan (1), Panama (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: California)
• Jurassic of Japan (1), Lebanon (1)
Total: 371 collections including 539 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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