Diploctenium enigma Alloiteau 1952 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae

Full reference: J. Alloiteau. 1952. Sur le genre Diploctenium Goldf. dans le Cretace superieur Francais [About the genus Diploctenium Goldf. in the Upper Cretaceous of France]. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 2:537-573

Belongs to Diploctenium according to J. Alloiteau 1952

Sister taxa: Diploctenium affine, Diploctenium arnaudi, Diploctenium corbariensis, Diploctenium cordatum, Diploctenium crassicostatum, Diploctenium cureti, Diploctenium epagnacensis, Diploctenium ferrumequinum, Diploctenium gracile, Diploctenium jacobi, Diploctenium lamellosum, Diploctenium lunatum, Diploctenium lutaudi, Diploctenium matheroni, Diploctenium mixtum, Diploctenium parvum, Diploctenium petrocoriensis, Diploctenium plumum, Diploctenium provincialis, Diploctenium simplex, Diploctenium subcirculare, Diploctenium toucasi, Diploctenium uxacalcensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Livernant, which is in a Campanian shallow subtidal limestone in France

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Livernant

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