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
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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