Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae
Alternative combination: Sphenotrochus straini
Full reference: D. Turnsek, D. V. LeMone, and R. W. Scott. 2003. Tethyan Albian corals, Cerro de Cristo Rey Uplift, Chihuahua and New Mexico. Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Paleoecology, Texas and Mexico: Perkins Memorial Volume. Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation, Special Publications in Geology 1:147-185
Belongs to Kobyphyllia according to R. Baron-Szabo 2009
See also Turnsek et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Kobyphyllia acrisionae, Kobyphyllia recta
Type specimen: Its type locality is Mesilla Valley Shale, Cerro de Cristo Rey, New Mexico, which is in an Albian shallow subtidal shale/limestone in the Mesilla Valley Shale Formation of New Mexico
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution: found only at Mesilla Valley Shale, Cerro de Cristo Rey, New Mexico
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