Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Parent taxon: Actinacididae according to R. A. López-Pérez 2005
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Squires and Demetrion 1992 and Turnsek 1997
Sister taxa: Actinhelia, Elephantaria, Thamnarea
Subtaxa: Actinacis alabamensis Actinacis barretti Actinacis cognata Actinacis elegans Actinacis haueri Actinacis magna Actinacis martiniana Actinacis miyakoensis Actinacis parvulina Actinacis phineus Actinacis remesi Actinacis reussi Actinacis rollei Actinacis sawkinsi Actinacis valverdensis
Type: Actinacis martiniana
Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (4 collections), China (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Greece (2), Haiti (1), Iran (1), Italy (37), Jamaica (2), Libya (1), Mexico (1), Puerto Rico (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (4), Somalia (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Georgia), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (5), Italy (13), Jamaica (3), Mexico (4), North Atlantic (1), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (10), Ukraine (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Croatia (1), France (1), Iran (2), Italy (2), Puerto Rico (1), Slovakia (11), Slovenia (4), Spain (2), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Austria (6), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (16), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (3), Oman (3), Pakistan (4), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Slovenia (3), Spain (4), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Arab Emirates (4), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 199 collections including 227 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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