Parent taxon: Helioporacea according to J.E.N. Veron 2000
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Squires and Demetrion 1992
Sister taxa: Epiphaxum, Helioporidae, Kaluginella, Octotremacis, Polytremacis
Subtaxa: Heliopora bennetti Heliopora boettgeri Heliopora lusanovkaensis Heliopora mexicanae Heliopora radiata Heliopora sparsipora Heliopora stewarti
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection), Cook Islands (1), Guam (1), Japan (2), Maldives (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Papua New Guinea (1), the Philippines (2), Taiwan (1), Tuvalu (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Philippines (1)
• Miocene of Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Malaysia (2), the Marshall Islands (3), Northern Mariana Islands (1)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of the Marshall Islands (3)
• Eocene of Cuba (1), Italy (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Mexico (3), Panama (2)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Iran (1), Puerto Rico (1), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Armenia (1), Azerbaijan (1), the Czech Republic (6), Germany (1), Greece (1), Jamaica (2), Poland (1), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), the United Arab Emirates (2)
Total: 64 collections including 67 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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