†Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 (horn coral)
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Anthozoa - Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Belongs to Palaeosmilia according to J. Fedorowski et al. 2012
See also Aretz and Herbig 2010
Sister taxa: Palaeosmilia multiseptata, Palaeosmilia ressoti
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Algeria (1 collection), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (7), France (1), Ireland (4), Japan (1), Morocco (20), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (19)
Total: 63 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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