Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Synonym: Porites toulai Vaughan 1919
Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524
Belongs to Porites according to Vaughan 1919
See also Flórez et al. 2019, Foster 1986, López-Pérez 2005 and Vaughan 1919
Sister taxa: Porites (Synaraea), Porites amplectans, Porites anguillensis, Porites arenosa, Porites arnaudi, Porites astreoides, Porites australiensis, Porites belli, Porites bernardi, Porites branneri, Porites calabricae, Porites carrizensis, Porites chipolanum, Porites collegniana, Porites colonensis, Porites columnaris, Porites compressa, Porites convivatoris, Porites crustulum, Porites cylindrica, Porites deshayesiana, Porites divaricata, Porites diversiformis, Porites douvillei, Porites evermanni, Porites floridaeprima, Porites furcata, Porites gajensis, Porites hawaiiensis, Porites heronensis, Porites incrustans, Porites lanuginosa, Porites leptoclada, Porites lichen, Porites lobata, Porites lobatosepta, Porites lutea, Porites macdonaldi, Porites maigensis, Porites mancietensis, Porites matheroni, Porites minuta, Porites mordax, Porites multilamellata, Porites murrayensis, Porites nigrescens, Porites nodifera, Porites nodulosa, Porites nummulitica, Porites oligocenica, Porites pachysepta, Porites panamensis, Porites porites, Porites portoricensis, Porites pusilla, Porites rus, Porites solida, Porites sverdrupi, Porites timorensis, Porites trinitatis, Porites undulata, Porites vindobonarum, Porites waylandi
Type specimens:
- Porites baracoaensis: Its type locality is Baracoa, station 3476, which is in a Miocene perireef or subreef marl in Cuba
- Porites toulai: Its type locality is Vaughn Station 601 - Empire [Emperador Limestone], which is in an Aquitanian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Culebra Formation of Panama.
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Panama (4)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (5), Costa Rica (13), Curaçao (8), the Dominican Republic (15), Jamaica (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (4), United States (1: Puerto Rico)
• Miocene of Anguilla (3), the Bahamas (1), Colombia (8), Cuba (1), Curaçao (1), the Dominican Republic (14), Fiji (1), Mexico (3), Panama (14), Trinidad and Tobago (3), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (3), Jamaica (2), Venezuela (1)
Total: 110 collections including 111 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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