Dimorphastrea udzlourensis Bendukidze 1956 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae

Full reference: N. S. Bendukidze. 1956. Verkhnemelovyye korally okrestnostey Godogani i Udzlouri [Upper Cretaceous corals from Godogani and Udzlouri]. Trudy Geologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, Seriya Geologiya 9(2):79-125

Belongs to Dimorphastrea according to N. S. Bendukidze 1956

Sister taxa: Dimorphastraea fallax, Dimorphastraea radshensis, Dimorphastraea renevieri, Dimorphastraea triadica, Dimorphastraea vasiformis, Dimorphastrea bellula, Dimorphastrea composita, Dimorphastrea concentrica, Dimorphastrea conica, Dimorphastrea cosmanni, Dimorphastrea delaunayi, Dimorphastrea dubia, Dimorphastrea excavata, Dimorphastrea explanata, Dimorphastrea fungiformis, Dimorphastrea glomerata, Dimorphastrea grandiflora, Dimorphastrea heteromorpha, Dimorphastrea irradians, Dimorphastrea irregulare, Dimorphastrea lamellosa, Dimorphastrea mitodaensis, Dimorphastrea multisepta, Dimorphastrea parvistella, Dimorphastrea petalophyes, Dimorphastrea radiata, Dimorphastrea regularis, Dimorphastrea scutellum, Dimorphastrea solida, Dimorphastrea speciosa, Dimorphastrea stantoni, Dimorphastrea subturonensis, Dimorphastrea sulcosa, Dimorphastrea tendagurensis, Dimorphastrea tenuistriata, Dimorphastrea tenustriata, Dimorphastrea toucasi, Dimorphastrea vaughani, Dimorphastrea waehneri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Akhalbediseuli, which is in a Turonian/Campanian marine limestone in Georgia

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Akhalbediseuli

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