Calamophylliopsis compacta Koby 1884 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae

Alternative combination: Calamophyllia flabellum compacta

Full reference: F. Koby. 1884. Monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse (4). Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse 11:149-212

Belongs to Calamophylliopsis according to E. Roniewicz 1976

See also Bendukidze 1982

Sister taxa: Calamophylliopsis cervina, Calamophylliopsis compressa, Calamophylliopsis crassa, Calamophylliopsis elegans, Calamophylliopsis etalloni, Calamophylliopsis flabellum, Calamophylliopsis fotisalensis, Calamophylliopsis klothoensis, Calamophylliopsis kyrvakarensis, Calamophylliopsis lombricalis, Calamophylliopsis marini, Calamophylliopsis moreauana, Calamophylliopsis sandbergeri, Calamophylliopsis simonyi, Calamophylliopsis stockesi, Calamophylliopsis vidali, Cladophylliopsis alternicosta

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (3 collections)

• Jurassic of Ethiopia (2), Georgia (2), Poland (1), Romania (3), Thailand (1)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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