Heteropsammia cochlea Spengler 1781 (stony coral)

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 (3)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Philippines (1), Taiwan (1)

• Pliocene of Taiwan (2)

• Miocene of Indonesia (1)

Total: 9 collections including 10 occurrences

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