†family Placophylliidae Eliasova 1990 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Placophylliidae

Full reference: H. Eliasova. 1990. Coraux des Calcaires d'Ernstbrunn (Jurassique supérieur-Crétacé inférieur dans les Carpates externes, zone de Waschberg, Tchécoslovaquie) [Corals of the Ernstbrunn Limestone (Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous, Outer Carpathians, Waschberg Zone, Czechoslowakia)]. Casopis pro Mineralogii a Geologii 35(2):113-134

Parent taxon: Rhipidogyrina according to E. Morycowa and M. Misik 2005

Sister taxa: Rhipidogyridae, Trochoidomeandridae

Subtaxa: Diplocoeniella Placophyllia

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Eocene of Libya (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Mexico (2), Poland (4), Serbia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1)

• Jurassic of Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), Czechia (5), Georgia (2), Germany (7), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Poland (3), Portugal (15), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (5), Tajikistan (2)

Total: 69 collections including 81 occurrences

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