Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Alternative combination: Aphrastrea neglecta
Belongs to Favites according to Chevalier 1961
Sister taxa: Favites abdita, Favites acuticollis, Favites ambigua, Favites autignacensis, Favites borneensis, Favites carryensis, Favites chinensis, Favites complanata, Favites crassiseptata, Favites densisepta, Favites detecta, Favites flexuosa, Favites gabbi, Favites halicora, Favites inaequiseptata, Favites macrocalyx, Favites magnificata, Favites magnistellata, Favites mexicana, Favites micropentagona, Favites mimbastensis, Favites neugeboreni, Favites neuvillei, Favites oligocenica, Favites pauciseptata, Favites pentagona, Favites polygonalis, Favites rhomboidea, Favites rotundata, Favites spinosa, Favites stylifera, Favites taruensis, Favites tesserifera, Favites valenciennesii, Favites verbeeki, Favites yamanarii
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Miocene of Egypt (5 collections), France (12), Greece (3), Iran (1), Italy (1), Libya (1), Morocco (2), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Sudan (1), Türkiye (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Iran (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Malta (2)
Total: 35 collections including 36 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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