Heteropsammia cochlea Spengler 1781 (stony coral)
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Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Alternative combination: Madrepora cochlea
Synonyms: Heteropsammia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848, Heteropsammia ovalis Semper 1872
Belongs to Heteropsammia according to Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860
See also Kiessling 2014 and Yabe and Eguchi 1941
Sister taxa: none
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indonesia (1 collection), Japan (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Philippines (1)
• Miocene of Indonesia (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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