Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Alternative combination: Maeandra dumblei
Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524
Belongs to Diploria according to S. D. Cairns 1991
See also Vaughan 1919
Sister taxa: Diploria antiguensis, Diploria bowersi, Diploria clilvosa, Diploria labyrinthiformis, Diploria portoricensis, Diploria sarasotana, Diploria zambensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is San Jose de las Rusias, which is in an Oligocene marine horizon in the San Fernando Formation of Mexico
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at San Jose de las Rusias
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