Anthozoa - Helioporacea - Helioporidae
Alternative combinations: Heliopora kysylkumensis, Pseudopolytremacis kysylkumensis
Full reference: E. I. Kuzmicheva. 1970. Pervyye nakhodki rannemelovykh korallov Heliopora Blainv. i Polytremacis Orb. na territorii SSSR i sistematicheskoye polozheniye etikh rodov [First discoveries of Early Cretaceous corals belonging to Heliopora and Polytremacis in the USSR and the systematic position of these genera]. in Mezozoyskiye korally SSSR [Mesozoic corals of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (4)93-100
Belongs to Proheliopora according to Y. I. Kuzmicheva 1982
See also Kuzmicheva 1970 and Schlagintweit and Gawlik 2009
Sister taxa: Pseudopolytremacis japonica, Pseudopolytremacis paliformis, Pseudopolytremacis spinoseptata
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dzhengeldy, Kyzylkum, which is in an Albian marine horizon in Uzbekistan
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Uzbekistan (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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