†family Columastreidae Alloiteau 1952 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Columastreidae

Alternative spelling: Columastraeidae

Parent taxon: Faviina according to W. Kiessling 2009

See also Baron-Szabo 2006, Baron-Szabo and González-León 1999 and Kiessling et al. 2005

Sister taxa: Cladocoridae, Diplocteniopsidae, Eugyridae, Faviicae, Heliastraeidae, Isastreidae, Misistellidae, Mussidae, Oculinidae, Pamiroseriidae, Phyllocoeniidae, Placocoeniidae, Placosmiliidae, Stylophyllicae, Tropidastraeidae

Subtaxa: Columastrea Eocolumastrea Haimesastrea Haimesiastraea Palaeoplesiastraea Stephanaxophyllia

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Type: Columastrea

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Algeria (4 collections), Egypt (1), France (2), Iran (1), Italy (4), Libya (2), Morocco (5), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Spain (6)

• Oligocene of Somalia (1)

• Eocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), Mexico (2), Peru (3), United States (3: Alabama)

• Paleocene of Argentina (3), Greenland (2), India (1), Slovenia (1), Somalia (1), United States (13: Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (5), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Chile (2), Croatia (1), France (2), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Greece (3), Iran (2), Italy (5), Madagascar (1), Oman (4), Peru (1), Romania (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (3), the United Arab Emirates (4), United States (3: New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (4)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1)

Total: 108 collections including 126 occurrences

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