Donacosmilia thurmanni Beauvais 1964 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae

Full reference: L. Beauvais. 1964. Etude stratigraphique et paléontologique des formations à madréporaires du Jurassique supérieur du Jura et de l'est du Bassin de Paris. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 100:1-288

Belongs to Donacosmilia according to L. Beauvais 1964

Sister taxa: Donacosmilia corallina, Donacosmilia cotteaui, Donacosmilia etalloni, Donacosmilia massaliensis, Donacosmilia silingensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bressaucourt, which is in an Oxfordian shallow subtidal limestone/marl in Switzerland

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Bressaucourt

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