Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Full reference: P. M. Duncan. 1863. On the fossil corals of the West Indian Islands. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19:406-458
Parent taxon: Faviidae according to K. G. Johnson 1998
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Agathiphylliinae, Dactylosmilia, Defrancia, Dictyoastraea, Favia, Hadrophyllia, Ksiazkiewiczia, Montastreinae, Sakalavastraea, Solenastrea
Subtaxa: Thysanus corbicula Thysanus excentricus Thysanus navicula Thysanus tenuicostatum
Type: Thysanus excentricus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Panama (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (2), United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (1), Costa Rica (7), Cuba (2), the Dominican Republic (2), Jamaica (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (7), Panama (4)
• Eocene of Ukraine (1)
Total: 37 collections including 42 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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