Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Alternative spelling: Stilosmilia
Parent taxon: Stylinidae according to E. Roniewicz 1976
See also d'Orbigny 1850, Sepkoski 2002 and Squires and Demetrion 1992
Sister taxa: Acanthocoenia, Adelocoenia, Aplophyllia, Australoseris, Bilaterocoenia, Convexastrea, Cyathophorinae, Eugyriopsis, Euheliinae, Goniocora, Proaplophyllia, Procyathophora, Pseudocoeniinae, Pseudocoeniopsis, Schizosmiliopsis, Sinaimeandra, Stylina, Stylininae, Stylohelia
Subtaxa: Stylosmilia alpina Stylosmilia ameliae Stylosmilia catenula Stylosmilia corallina Stylosmilia crassitheca Stylosmilia fascicularis Stylosmilia flexuosa Stylosmilia gregorii Stylosmilia kangpaensis Stylosmilia michelini Stylosmilia naumanni Stylosmilia octonaria Stylosmilia shirakurai Stylosmilia solidecolumella Stylosmilia subgracilis Stylosmilia suevica Stylosmilia tanggulaensis Stylosmilia tenuis Stylosmilia tingriensis Stylosmilia yabei
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Mexico (1 collection)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Slovakia (2)
• Paleocene of Slovakia (2)
• Cretaceous of Austria (5), Bulgaria (8), China (3), France (1), Georgia (2), Germany (1), Greece (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Switzerland (2), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (1), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of China (1), Japan (3), Poland (2)
• Jurassic of Austria (1), Azerbaijan (5), Bulgaria (1), China (5), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (5), France (32), Georgia (7), Germany (8), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Indonesia (6), Italy (3), Japan (1), Morocco (5), Myanmar (1), Oman (1), Poland (5), Portugal (15), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (7), Spain (5), Switzerland (3), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (2), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 179 collections including 218 occurrences
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