Squamites nodosus Leleshus 1971 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae

Full reference: V. L. Leleshus. 1971. Novyye rannedevonskiye tabulyaty yuzhnogo Tyan-Shanya [New Early Devonian tabulate corals from the southern Tien Shan Range]. 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)149-154

Belongs to Squamites according to V. L. Leleshus 1971

Sister taxa: Squamites modicus, Squamites regalis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Shishkat, Pandzhrut Formation, which is in an Emsian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Pandzhrut Formation of Tajikistan

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Shishkat, Pandzhrut Formation

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