Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae

Synonym: Flabellum texense Vaughan and Popenoe 1935

Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263

Belongs to Flabellum according to T. W. Vaughan 1900

See also Baron-Szabo 2008 and Vaughan and Popenoe 1935

Sister taxa: Flabellum acutum, Flabellum alloiteaui, Flabellum anderssoni, Flabellum apertum, Flabellum appendiculatum, Flabellum asperum, Flabellum austriacum, Flabellum avicula, Flabellum basteroti, Flabellum californicum, Flabellum carenatum, Flabellum chevalieri, Flabellum chipolanum, Flabellum chouberti, Flabellum circulum, Flabellum clarki, Flabellum clavaeformis, Flabellum cristatum, Flabellum cuneifome, Flabellum cuneiforme, Flabellum curtum, Flabellum deludens, Flabellum dubium, Flabellum elongatum, Flabellum extensum, Flabellum fastigatum, Flabellum foecundum, Flabellum fresnoense, Flabellum gippslandicum, Flabellum grangense, Flabellum hemmoorense, Flabellum hertleini, Flabellum insulindae, Flabellum intermedium, Flabellum irregulare, Flabellum johnsoni, Flabellum krejcii, Flabellum laevissimum, Flabellum lerchi, Flabellum lobatum, Flabellum medioplicatum, Flabellum microscriptum, Flabellum miriaensis, Flabellum mortoni, Flabellum multifore, Flabellum oregonense, Flabellum pavoninum, Flabellum peolae, Flabellum planus, Flabellum pompeckji, Flabellum poseidonis, Flabellum rariseptatum, Flabellum rhomboideum, Flabellum roissyanum, Flabellum sandiegoense, Flabellum senesi, Flabellum siciliense, Flabellum sinense, Flabellum stantoni, Flabellum striatum, Flabellum thouarsii, Flabellum transversale, Flabellum tuberculatum, Flabellum variabile, Flabellum vaticani, Flabellum vindobonense, Flabellum wailesii, Flabellum zejszneri, Flabellum zuffardii

Type specimens:

• Flabellum conoideum: Its type locality is Prairie Creek, Sucarnochee Clays, which is in a Paleocene coastal claystone in the Sucarnochee Clay Formation of Alabama
• Flabellum texense: Its type locality is USGS 11913 Colorado River, which is in a Danian coastal claystone in the Wills Point Formation of Texas.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

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