Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1899. Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 34:227-250
Belongs to Dendracis according to T. W. Vaughan 1899
Sister taxa: Dendracis bifaria, Dendracis mammillosa, Dendracis micrantha, Dendracis nodosa, Dendracis seriata
Type specimen: Its type locality is Cambridge Station [Cambridge Beds], which is in a Lutetian shallow subtidal limestone/marl in the Cambridge Formation of Jamaica
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Jamaica (4 collections), Panama (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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