Placogyra Koby 1904 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae

Synonyms: Kologyra Wells 1937, Ogilvinella Eliasova 1976

Parent taxon: Rhipidogyrinae according to D. K. Pandey and F. T. Fürsich 2003

See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Baron-Szabo 2009, Lauxmann 1991, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956

Sister taxa: Aplosmilia, Codonosmilia, Hexaflos, Rhipidogyra

Subtaxa: Ogilvinella morycowae Ogilvinella tosaensis Placogyra aldingeri Placogyra brevimaeandra Placogyra elegans Placogyra felixi Placogyra kuehni Placogyra parelegans

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Type: Placogyra felixi

Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (5 collections), China (1), Georgia (2), Spain (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (1)

• Jurassic of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (2), Iran (1), Italy (1), Poland (2), Portugal (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 21 collections including 24 occurrences

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