Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524
Belongs to Agaricia according to P. H. De Buisonjé 1974
See also Vaughan 1919
Sister taxa: Agaricia agaricites, Agaricia batalleri, Agaricia boletiformis, Agaricia convexa, Agaricia elegans, Agaricia fragilis, Agaricia graciosa, Agaricia grahamae, Agaricia lamarcki, Agaricia ramulosa, Agaricia sommeringii, Agaricia sulcata, Agaricia tuberosa, Agaricia undata
Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 7778 Rio Gurabo, which is in a Pliocene marine horizon in the Dominican Republic
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections), Haiti (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Netherlands Antilles (3)
• Miocene of Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (1)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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