Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Full reference: N. S. Bendukidze. 1982. Pozdneyurskiye korally rifogennykh otlozheniy Kavkaza i Kryma [Upper Jurassic corals from the reef deposits of the Caucasus and Crimea]. Akademiya Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, Geologicheskiy Institut imeni A I Dzhanelidze, Trudy 74:1-166
Belongs to Puschastraea according to N. S. Bendukidze 1982
Sister taxa: Puchastraea maudensis, Puschastraea kamiennae
Type specimen: Its type locality is Kokh Mountain, Caucasus, which is in an Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in Georgia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Kokh Mountain, Caucasus
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