Schizocyathus daschsalachlyensis Kuzmicheva 1987 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Guyniidae

Full reference: E. I. Kuzmicheva. 1987. Verkhnemelovyye i paleogenovyye korally SSSR [Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene corals from the USSR] 1-187

Belongs to Schizocyathus according to E. I. Kuzmicheva 1987

Sister taxon: Schizocyathus fissilis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dash-Salakhly, which is in a Danian marine horizon in Azerbaijan

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Dash-Salakhly

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