Amplexus pustulosus Hudleston 1883 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Amplexidae

Full reference: W. H. Hudleston. 1883. Notes on a collection of fossils and of rock-specimens from west Australia, north of the Gascoyne River. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 39:582-595

Belongs to Amplexus according to D. Hill 1942

See also Etheridge 1903, Hinde 1890 and Hudleston 1883

Sister taxa: Amplexus arundinaceus, Amplexus breviseptatus, Amplexus coralloides, Amplexus nodulosus, Amplexus salamonensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Fossil Range, north of Lyons River, which is in a Sakmarian marine horizon in the Callytharra Formation of Australia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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