Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Alternative combinations: Goniastrea solida, Madrepora solida
Belongs to Porites according to Klunzinger 1879
See also Montanaro Gallitelli 1973
Sister taxa: Porites (Synaraea), Porites amplectans, Porites anguillensis, Porites arenosa, Porites arnaudi, Porites astreoides, Porites australiensis, Porites baracoaensis, Porites belli, Porites bernardi, Porites branneri, Porites calabricae, Porites carrizensis, Porites chipolanum, Porites collegniana, Porites colonensis, Porites columnaris, Porites compressa, Porites convivatoris, Porites crustulum, Porites cylindrica, Porites deshayesiana, Porites divaricata, Porites diversiformis, Porites douvillei, Porites evermanni, Porites floridaeprima, Porites furcata, Porites gajensis, Porites hawaiiensis, Porites heronensis, Porites incrustans, Porites lanuginosa, Porites leptoclada, Porites lichen, Porites lobata, Porites lobatosepta, Porites lutea, Porites macdonaldi, Porites maigensis, Porites mancietensis, Porites matheroni, Porites minuta, Porites mordax, Porites multilamellata, Porites murrayensis, Porites nigrescens, Porites nodifera, Porites nodulosa, Porites nummulitica, Porites oligocenica, Porites pachysepta, Porites panamensis, Porites porites, Porites portoricensis, Porites pusilla, Porites rus, Porites sverdrupi, Porites timorensis, Porites trinitatis, Porites undulata, Porites vindobonarum, Porites waylandi
Type specimen: Its type locality is UCMP loc738, Coyote Mountain, which is in a Pliocene marine sandstone in the Imperial Formation of California.
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Egypt (1), Eritrea (1), Saudi Arabia (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (2)
• Miocene of France (1), Indonesia (1)
Total: 13 collections including 14 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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