Caninophyllum belcheri Harker 1960 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Bothrophyllidae

Alternative combination: Caninia belcheri

Full reference: P. Harker. 1960. Corals, Brachiopods and Molluscs of the Grinnell Peninsula, in Permian rocks and faunas of the Grinnell Peninsula, Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 309:1-89

Belongs to Caninophyllum according to E. Chwieduk 2009

Sister taxa: Caninophyllum archiaci, Caninophyllum convextabulatum, Caninophyllum domaense, Caninophyllum domheri, Caninophyllum gigantea, Caninophyllum incrassatum, Caninophyllum sonorense

Type specimen: GSC 13502. Its type locality is GSC 26418, Lyall River, Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island, which is in an Asselian carbonate limestone in the Belcher Channel Formation of Canada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at GSC 26418, Lyall River, Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island

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