Hayasakaia gigantea Lin 1958 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Auloporida - Tetraporellidae

Full reference: B. Y. Lin. 1958. New representatives of the genus Hayasakaia from Permian deposits of southwest China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 6:305-323

Belongs to Hayasakaia according to S. W. Yang 1978

See also Lin 1958

Sister taxa: Hayasakaia cystosa, Hayasakaia elegantula, Hayasakaia fasciacerioformis, Hayasakaia guangxiensis, Hayasakaia guankouensis, Hayasakaia infundibula, Hayasakaia irregularis, Hayasakaia kunghsiensis, Hayasakaia luodianensis, Hayasakaia mistivesica, Hayasakaia raricystata, Hayasakaia shijianpuensis, Hayasakaia sichuanensis, Hayasakaia spinosa, Hayasakaia syringoporoides, Hayasakaia tianquanensis, Hayasakaia yashanensis, Hayasakaia yunnanensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Western boundary of Guiding county, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in the Qixia Formation of China

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Western boundary of Guiding county

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.