Pachyfavosites horridus Yanet 1971 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae

Full reference: F. Y. Yanet. 1971. Mikrostrukturnyye osobennosti siluriyskikh i devonskikh tabulyat Urala [Microstructural characteristics of Silurian and Devonian tabulate corals from the Urals]. in Tabulyaty i geliolitoidei paleozoya SSSR [Paleozoic Tabulata and Heliolitoidea of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (1)46-55

Belongs to Pachyfavosites according to F. Y. Yanet 1971

Sister taxon: Pachyfavosites polonicus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Vizhay River, Middle Urals, which is in a Lochkovian/Pragian marine horizon in the Russian Federation

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Vizhay River, Middle Urals

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