Dimorphocoenia hellenensis Beauvais 1972 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae

Full reference: L. Beauvais. 1972. Trois especes nouvelles de Madreporaires de l'Oxfordien superieur de Grece continentale (Province de Beotie) [Three new Upper Oxfordian coral species from continental Greece (Boeotia)]. Annales Societe Geologique du Nord 92(2):95-98

Belongs to Dimorphocoenia according to L. Beauvais 1972

Sister taxa: Dimorphocoenia crassisepta, Dimorphocoenia izvoralbensis, Dimorphocoenia jurassica, Dimorphocoenia kaufmanni, Dimorphocoenia multitabulata, Dimorphocoenia shachverdljarensis, Dimorphocoenia solomkoae, Dimorphocoenia xipei

Type specimen: Its type locality is Koronia, Boeotia, which is in an Oxfordian shallow subtidal limestone in the Domvrena Marble Formation of Greece

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Koronia, Boeotia

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