Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Alternative combination: Rhectopsammia claibornensis
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 Endopachys according to W. Kiessling 2008
See also Vaughan 1900
Sister taxa: Endopachys alticostatum, Endopachys expansum, Endopachys grayi, Endopachys lonsdalei, Endopachys maclurii, Endopachys minutum, Endopachys tampae, Endopachys triangulare
Type specimen: Its type locality is Claiborne, which is in a Bartonian coastal sandstone in the Claiborne Sand Formation of Alabama
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at Claiborne
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