Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Alternative combination: Astrohelia neglecta
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 Astrhelia according to W. Kiessling 2008
See also Vaughan 1900
Sister taxon: Astrhelia burnsi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Red Bluff, which is in a Rupelian marine horizon in the Red Bluff Formation of Mississippi
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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