Plesiastrea grayi Kühn 1933 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae

Full reference: O. Kühn. 1933. Das Becken von Isfahan-Saidabad und seine altmiocäne Korallenfauna [The Isfahan-Saidabad Basin and its Miocene coral fauna]. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 79:143-221

Belongs to Plesiastrea according to O. Kühn 1933

Sister taxa: Plesiastrea californica, Plesiastrea costata, Plesiastrea fungiformis, Plesiastrea incerta, Plesiastrea microcalyx, Plesiastrea moravica, Plesiastrea sulcatilamellosa, Plesiastrea versipora

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kaleh-i-Sang, which is in a Burdigalian perireef or subreef limestone in the Saidabad Coral Limestone Formation of Iran

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Miocene of Iran (2 collections)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Somalia (1)

• Oligocene of Somalia (2)

Total: 5 collections including 6 occurrences

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