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
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