Kobyastraea Roniewicz 1970 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Kobyastraeidae

Alternative spelling: Kobyastrea

Synonym: Phacellastraea

Parent taxon: Kobyastraeidae according to H. Löser and S. Ferry 2006

See also Beauvais 1988, Kiessling 2008, Löser and Raeder 1995, Roniewicz 1976 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Kobyastraea bourgeati Kobyastraea haradai Kobyastraea holmoides Kobyastraea lomontiana Kobyastraea louisae Kobyastraea tenuis

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (1 collection), France (2), Greece (1), Mexico (1), Tanzania (1)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Azerbaijan (1), China (2), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (2), Ethiopia (2), France (7), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Myanmar (1), Portugal (1), Romania (3), Saudi Arabia (5), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), Uzbekistan (2)

Total: 42 collections including 44 occurrences

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