Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
Alternative combination: Turbinoseris cantabrigiensis
Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1899. Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 34:227-250
Belongs to Antilloseris according to Vaughan 1919
See also López-Pérez 2005
Sister taxa: Antilloseris jamaicaensis, Antilloseris vaughani
Type specimen: Its type locality is Cambridge Station [Cambridge Beds], which is in a Lutetian shallow subtidal limestone/marl in the Cambridge Formation of Jamaica
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Eocene of Jamaica (2 collections), Mexico (2), North Atlantic (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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