Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Comoseridae
Synonym: Microsolena variolata Gregory 1900
Full reference: A. Étallon. 1859. Etudes paléontologiques sur le Haut-Jura. Rayonnés du Corallien. Mémoires de la Société d'Emulation du département du Doubs 3(3):401-553
Belongs to Microsolena according to E. de Fromentel 1861
See also Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860, Morycowa and Decrouez 2006, Pandey et al. 2000 and Pandey and Fürsich 2003
Sister taxa: Microsolena amorpha, Microsolena arishensis, Microsolena besairiei, Microsolena bruntrutana, Microsolena caesaris, Microsolena catenata, Microsolena cavernosa, Microsolena conica, Microsolena corallina, Microsolena corticata, Microsolena culcitaeformis, Microsolena delicatula, Microsolena edwardsi, Microsolena excavata, Microsolena exigua, Microsolena expansa, Microsolena fascicularis, Microsolena foliosa, Microsolena formosa, Microsolena fromenteli, Microsolena gibbosa, Microsolena grandiflora, Microsolena gresslyi, Microsolena guttata, Microsolena haimei, Microsolena hassimguitaensis, Microsolena hemispherica, Microsolena incrustata, Microsolena interjecta, Microsolena japonica, Microsolena julii, Microsolena kobyi, Microsolena kugleri, Microsolena loginovae, Microsolena major, Microsolena mosensis, Microsolena multisepta, Microsolena parva, Microsolena pavonia, Microsolena piriformis, Microsolena plana, Microsolena porosa, Microsolena portlandica, Microsolena pulvinata, Microsolena ramosa, Microsolena regularis, Microsolena rotata, Microsolena sadeki, Microsolena sinuata, Microsolena stellata, Microsolena studeri, Microsolena subexcavata, Microsolena subramosa, Microsolena subturbinata, Microsolena tenuiradiata, Microsolena tenuistriata, Microsolena texana, Microsolena thurmanni, Microsolena tuberosa, Microsolena verdati, Microsolena yabei, Microsolena zangbeiensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (3 collections), France (1), Greece (2), Spain (1), Switzerland (1)
• Jurassic of Bulgaria (2), China (1), Czechia (1), France (1), Georgia (1), Germany (10), Iran (10), Jordan (2), Poland (10), Portugal (20), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (5), Spain (2), Ukraine (1), Uzbekistan (3)
Total: 83 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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