Calamophylliopsis stockesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae

Alternative combinations: Calamophyllia stokesi, Calamophylliopsis stokesi

Belongs to Calamophylliopsis according to D. Turnsek 1997

See also Bendukidze 1949 and Rosendahl 1985

Sister taxa: Calamophylliopsis cervina, Calamophylliopsis compacta, Calamophylliopsis compressa, Calamophylliopsis crassa, Calamophylliopsis elegans, Calamophylliopsis etalloni, Calamophylliopsis flabellum, Calamophylliopsis fotisalensis, Calamophylliopsis klothoensis, Calamophylliopsis kyrvakarensis, Calamophylliopsis lombricalis, Calamophylliopsis marini, Calamophylliopsis moreauana, Calamophylliopsis sandbergeri, Calamophylliopsis simonyi, Calamophylliopsis vidali, Cladophylliopsis alternicosta

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (2 collections)

• Jurassic of Georgia (2), Germany (1), Oman (1), Poland (7), Portugal (9), Romania (2), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (4), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 33 collections each including a single occurrence

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