Coenites sharaobensis Sharkova 1981 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Favositida - Coenitidae

Full reference: T. T. Sharkova. 1981. Siluriiskiye i devonskiye tabulyaty Mongolii [Silurian and Devonian Tabulata of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 14:5-104

Belongs to Coenites according to T. T. Sharkova 1981

Sister taxa: Coenites dunginensis, Coenites juniperinus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Shara-Obo Mountains, Baruun-Urt, Eastern Gobi, which is in an Emsian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Shargynul Formation of Mongolia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Shara-Obo Mountains, Baruun-Urt, Eastern Gobi

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