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Thecosmilia

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1848Thecosmilia Milne-Edwards and Haime
1976Lepidophylliopsis Beauvais and Stump
1976Thecosmilia Roniewicz
1990Montlivaltoides He and Xiao
1991Thecosmiliopsis Lebanidze
2002Lepidophylliopsis Sepkoski
2002Thecosmilia Sepkoski
2008Montlivaltoides Kiessling

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderFaviinaVaughan and Wells 1943
superfamilyFaviicaeGregory 1900
familyMontlivaltiidaeDietrich 1926
genusThecosmiliaMilne-Edwards and Haime 1848

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. †Thecosmilia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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Thecosmilia acaulis Koby 1884
Thecosmilia annularis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
Thecosmilia bassanii Prever 1909
Thecosmilia buonamici Stoppani 1865
Thecosmilia cartieri Koby 1884
Thecosmilia complanata Qi and Stanley 1989
Thecosmilia costata de Fromentel 1861
Thecosmilia cumanensis Wells 1944
Thecosmilia delaunayi Koby 1906
Thecosmilia densa Fromentel 1870
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Invalid names: Thecosmilia tobleri Koby 1895 [synonym], Thecosmilia trichotoma Goldfuss 1826 [synonym]
Thecosmilia dichotoma Koby 1884
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Invalid names: Thecosmilia pinguis Eliasova 1976 [synonym]
Thecosmilia elegans Lebanidze 1991
Thecosmilia furcata Koby 1884
Thecosmilia gregaria M'Coy 1851
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Invalid names: Coenotheca zolleriana Quenstedt 1881 [synonym], Montlivaultia gregaria M'Coy 1848 [synonym]
Thecosmilia gresslyi Koby 1884
Thecosmilia guerreroensis Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor 2009
Thecosmilia hoernesii Laube 1865
Thecosmilia jaccardi Koby 1884
Thecosmilia lancisii Stoppani 1865
Thecosmilia langi Koby 1884
Thecosmilia longimana Quenstedt 1881
Thecosmilia magna Etallon 1864
Thecosmilia martini Fromentel 1860
Thecosmilia minuta Koby 1884
Thecosmilia moraviensis Ogilvie 1897
Thecosmilia multigranulata Melnikova 1967
Thecosmilia neglecta Laube 1865
Thecosmilia ngariensis He and Xiao 1990
Thecosmilia norica Ogilvie Gordon 1927
Thecosmilia oaxaquensis Reyeros de Castillo 1983
Thecosmilia omboni Stoppani 1865
Thecosmilia qingyanensis Qi and Stanley 1989
Thecosmilia rofanica Frech 1890
Thecosmilia somaensis Eguchi 1951
Thecosmilia tibetana Liao 1982
Thecosmilia typica He and Xiao 1990
Thecosmilia virgulina Etallon 1864
Thecosmilia vurguni Babaev 1964
Thecosmilia weberi Vinassa de Regny 1915
Thecosmilia zagaliensis Babaev 1964
Invalid names: Lepidophylliopsis Beauvais and Stump 1976 [synonym], Montlivaltoides He and Xiao 1990 [synonym], Thecosmiliopsis Lebanidze 1991 [synonym]
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 Ladinian to the top of the Lutetian or 242.00000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections (279 total)

Oldest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Illyrian - Fassanian247.2 - 235.0Italy (South Tyrol) T. norica (205128)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Italy T. rothpletzi (202001 202041)
Ladinian - Carnian242.0 - 228.0Italy T. sp. (182585 182586)
Carnian237.0 - 228.0Italy (South Tyrol) T. rothpletzi, T. rariseptata (205157) T. sp. (205149)
Carnian237.0 - 228.0Italy T. sp. (170920)
Late/Upper Triassic237.0 - 201.4Indonesia (West Sumatra) T. sp. (204434)
Julian235.0 - 232.0Italy T. sp. (202422)
Tuvalian232.0 - 221.5Vietnam T. sp. (44770)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (Nevada) T. sp. (100398 100400 100409 100420 100435)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Canada (British Columbia) T. sp. (172167)

Youngest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state PBDB collection number
Albian113.0 - 100.5Mexico (Oaxaca) T. tobleri (79455)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Spain T. dichotoma (56935)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0USA (Texas) T. sp. (74763)
Middle Albian109.0 - 105.3Mexico T. bassanii (21255)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Egypt T. sp. (98327)
Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian105.3 - 93.5Mexico (Guerrero) T. guerreroensis (89856)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Greece T. densa (203930)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8Serbia and Montenegro T. minor (79220)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Italy T. sp. (75454)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71Italy T. sp. (146598)