Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Alternative spelling: Trigerastrea
Parent taxon: Latomeandridae according to R.C. Baron-Szabo 2021
See also Beauvais 1986, El-Asa'ad 1989, Kiessling 2003 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Aggomorphastraea, Brachyseris, Collignonastraea, Comophyllia, Digitosmilia, Dimorphastrea, Ellipsocoenia, Fungiaphyllia, Fungiastraea, Latiastrea, Latomeandra, Loboseris, Microphyllia, Microphylliopsis, Mixastraea, Ovalastrea, Periseris, Thalamocaeniopsis, Thamnoseris, Trochoplegmopsis, Valliculastraea, Vallimeandra
Subtaxa: Trigerastraea ampakabensis Trigerastraea collignoni Trigerastraea gourdani Trigerastraea haldonensis Trigerastraea irregularis Trigerastraea nuda Trigerastraea serialis
Type: Isastrea trigeri
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (4 collections), Germany (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Chile (1), France (2), Greece (1), Iran (4), Madagascar (3), Morocco (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Switzerland (1), Thailand (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 26 collections including 28 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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