Defrancia tamarisensis Chevalier 1961 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae

Full reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562

Belongs to Defrancia according to J. P. Chevalier 1961

Sister taxon: Defrancia irregularis

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-microcarnivore

Distribution: found only at Chainon de La Nerthe, Bouches-du-Rhone (Miocene of France)

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