Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Alternative combinations: Coeloria lamellina, Maeandra lamellina, Meandrina lamellina
Synonym: Oulophyllia angusta Gerth 1925
Belongs to Platygyra according to Wells 1956
See also Gerth 1925, Leloux and Renema 2007 and Yabe et al. 1936
Sister taxa: Platygyra acuta, Platygyra colombiana, Platygyra concentrica, Platygyra contorta, Platygyra crosslandi, Platygyra daedalea, Platygyra equisepta, Platygyra euaensis, Platygyra mareensis, Platygyra naroetensis, Platygyra pini, Platygyra renemai, Platygyra ryukyuensis, Platygyra sinensis, Platygyra singularis, Platygyra stricta, Coeloria andrewsi, Coeloria wellsi, Coeloria denselephantis, Astroria antiguensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Djibouti (1), Egypt (16), Eritrea (2), India (1), Indonesia (3), Japan (2), Kenya (5), New Caledonia (2), Papua New Guinea (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Vanuatu (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1), the Philippines (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (8), Japan (1), Malaysia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
Total: 51 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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