Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Parent taxon: Montlivaltiidae according to J. W. Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Anisastraea, Brevimaeandra, Ceratothecia, Clausastrea, Coenotheca, Complexastraeopsis, Complexastrea, Confusastrea, Cyathophyllia, Cyathophylliopsis, Dimorphocoenia, Elasmophyllia, Goldfussastraea, Goldfussastrea, Isastrea, Mapucheastrea, Margarastreopsis, Nerthastraea, Neuquinosmilia, Paraclausastraea, Paraphyllogyra, Peplosmilia, Placosmilia, Placosmiliinae, Puschastraea, Rhabdophyllia, Thecomeandra, Thecosmilia, Trochophyllia, Trochosmilia
Subtaxa: Dimorphosmilia Elysastraea Fromentellia Lasmosmilia Margarastraea Meandrastrea Montlivaltia Mycetophylliopsis Phyllogyra
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Papua New Guinea (1 collection)
• Miocene of Pakistan (1), Sri Lanka (2)
• Oligocene of Italy (1)
• Eocene of Pakistan (2)
• Paleocene of Pakistan (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Austria (6), Bulgaria (3), China (9), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Egypt (6), France (2), Georgia (2), Germany (4), Greece (2), India (1), Iran (4), Japan (3), Madagascar (1), Mexico (8), the Netherlands (2), Oman (1), Poland (2), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (10), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (5)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (2)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (3), Argentina (13), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (7), Belgium (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (69), China (3), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Ethiopia (1), France (28), Georgia (3), Germany (17), Greece (1), Hungary (2), India (8), Indonesia (2), Iran (12), Japan (2), Jordan (1), Madagascar (5), Mexico (1), Morocco (7), Peru (1), Poland (4), Portugal (16), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (5), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovenia (5), Spain (24), Switzerland (13), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (1), Thailand (2), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (32), Uzbekistan (1)
• Triassic of Austria (8), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (4: British Columbia, Yukon), China (4), East Timor (1), Germany (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (10), Japan (3), Poland (1), Romania (1), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (2), Turkey (1), United States (26: Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon)
Total: 479 collections including 705 occurrences