Dimorpharaea koechlini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Comoseridae

Alternative combination: Microsolena koechlini

Belongs to Dimorpharaea according to R. C. Baron-Szabo 2003

See also Bendukidze 1949, de Fromentel 1861, Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 and Pandey and Fürsich 2003

Sister taxa: Dimorpharaea aequiseptalis, Dimorpharaea burulchiensis, Dimorpharaea catalaunica, Dimorpharaea convexa, Dimorpharaea deickei, Dimorpharaea desori, Dimorpharaea expansa, Dimorpharaea globularis, Dimorpharaea japonica, Dimorpharaea lehmani, Dimorpharaea lentiformis, Dimorpharaea lineata, Dimorpharaea manchacaensis, Dimorpharaea munsteri, Dimorpharaea ornata, Dimorpharaea stellans, Dimorpharaea tosaensis, Dimorpharaea williamsonensis

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Greece (1 collection), Mexico (1)

• Jurassic of Czechia (1), France (3), Georgia (1), Iran (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (2)

Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence

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