Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Columastreidae

Alternative spelling: Haimesastraea

Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263

Parent taxon: Columastraeidae according to W. Kiessling et al. 2005

Sister taxa: Columastrea, Haimesastrea, Palaeoplesiastraea, Placocolumastrea, Stephanaxophyllia

Subtaxa: Haimesiastraea conferta

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Type: Haimesiastraea conferta

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder