Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Alternative combinations: Astrea caryophylloides, Favia caryophylloides
Full reference: G. A. Goldfuss. 1826. Petrefacta Germaniæ tam ea : quae in Museo Universitatis Regiae Borussicae Fridericiae Wilhelmiae Rhenanae servantur quam alia quaecunque in Museis Hoeninghusiano Muensteriano aliisque extant, iconibus et descriptionibus illustrata = Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der petrefacten Deutschlands und der angränzenden Länder /. 1-76
Belongs to Ovalastrea according to O. F. Geyer 1955
See also d'Orbigny 1850, D'Orbigny 1849, de Fromentel 1861 and Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857
Sister taxa: Ovalastraea cesaredensis, Ovalastraea heckeri, Ovalastrea bihinensis, Ovalastrea collignoni, Ovalastrea crassa, Ovalastrea cretacea, Ovalastrea dubia, Ovalastrea fredericksburgensis, Ovalastrea lobata, Ovalastrea michelini, Ovalastrea pecosensis, Ovalastrea plicata, Ovalastrea polygonalis, Ovalastrea proeminens, Ovalastrea pseudolorioli, Ovalastrea recki, Ovalastrea regularis, Ovalastrea tenuistriata, Ovalastrea urgonica
Type specimen: Lectotype BIOB-PB-Goldfuss-221, a skeleton
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Iran (1 collection), Spain (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Czechia (1), France (1), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Poland (3), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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