Pseudohuangia elegans Zhang 2002 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae

Full reference: X. H. Zhang. 2002. The Late Carboniferous and Early Permian rugose corals from Ziyun County and Qinglong County, south Guizhou. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 41:283-294

Belongs to Pseudohuangia according to X. H. Zhang 2002

Sister taxa: Pseudohuangia aberrans, Pseudohuangia chitralicum, Pseudohuangia chiuyaoshanensis, Pseudohuangia cincta, Pseudohuangia collucata, Pseudohuangia counilloni, Pseudohuangia crassa, Pseudohuangia fanchangensis, Pseudohuangia fashandia, Pseudohuangia lapparenti, Pseudohuangia lipoensis, Pseudohuangia minima, Pseudohuangia persica, Pseudohuangia pyzhjanovi, Pseudohuangia stoecklini, Pseudohuangia tabellata, Pseudohuangia tsengi, Pseudohuangia wengchengense

Type specimen: Its type locality is Houchang, Ziyun County, Parawentzellophyllum-Kepingophyllum assemblage, which is in a Sakmarian carbonate limestone in China

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Houchang, Ziyun County, Parawentzellophyllum-Kepingophyllum assemblage

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