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Kobyphyllia

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae

Taxonomy

Kobyphyllia was named by Baron-Szabo and Fernández-Mendiola (1997). It is not extant. Its type is Plesiophyllia recta.

It was assigned to Faviidae by Baron-Szabo and Fernández-Mendiola (1997); to Axosmiliidae by Baron-Szabo (2014); and to Montlivaltiidae by Ricci et al. (2018).

Species

K. acrisionae, K. recta, K. straini

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1997	Kobyphyllia Baron-Szabo and Fernández-Mendiola p. 47
2014	Kobyphyllia Baron-Szabo
2018	Kobyphyllia Ricci et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
phylum	Cnidaria	Hatschek 1888
class	Anthozoa	Ehrenberg 1834
—	Hexacorallia	()
order	Scleractinia	Bourne 1900

Rank	Name	Author
suborder	Faviina	Vaughan and Wells 1943
superfamily	Faviicae	Gregory 1900
family	Montlivaltiidae	(Duncan 1884)
genus	Kobyphyllia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Kobyphyllia Baron-Szabo and Fernández-Mendiola 1997

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†Kobyphyllia acrisionae Felix 1903

†Kobyphyllia recta Koby 1884

†Kobyphyllia straini Turnsek et al. 2003

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitesubo

Grouping:

colonialf

Clonal:

yesf

Environment:

marineo

Locomotion:

stationarysubo

Attached:

yessubo

Life habit:

intermediate-level epifaunalo

Diet:

photosymbioticf

Diet 2:

suspension feederf

Vision:

blindc

Reproduction:

alternatingo

Asexual:

yeso

Dispersal:

watero

Dispersal 2:

planktonico

Created:

2008-02-05 11:59:19

Modified:

2008-02-05 13:59:19

Source: f = family, subo = suborder, o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2008, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Tithonian to the top of the Campanian or 149.20000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Tithonian	149.2 - 145.06	Italy	K. recta (154046)
Late/Upper Valanginian - Early/Lower Aptian	137.05 - 119.57	Tanzania	Plesiosmilia bofilli (85378)
Albian	113.2 - 100.5	Spain	K. acrisionae (56934)
Late/Upper Albian	106.3 - 100.5	USA (New Mexico)	Sphenotrochus straini (35099)
Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Spain	K. acrisionae (67084)