Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Alternative combination: Placocyathus cristatus
Full reference: T. W. Vaughan and J. E. Hoffmeister. 1925. New species of fossil corals from the Dominican Republic. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 67(8):315-326
Belongs to Antillocyathus according to Wells 1937
Sister taxa: Antillocyathus alatus, Antillocyathus gracilis, Antillocyathus maoensis, Antillocyathus trinitatis
Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 7785 Rio Mao, which is in a Miocene coastal siliciclastic in the Cercado Formation of the Dominican Republic
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1 collection), the Dominican Republic (1), Panama (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.