Yatsengia sisophonensis Fontaine 1961 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae

Full reference: H. Fontaine. 1961. Les madreporaires paleozoiques du Viet-Nam, du Laos, et du Cambodge. Archives Geologiques du Viet-Nam 5:1-276

Belongs to Yatsengia according to H. Fontaine 1961

Sister taxa: Yatsengia asiatica, Yatsengia cambodgiense, Yatsengia crassitheca, Yatsengia dayongensis, Yatsengia elegans, Yatsengia gigantea, Yatsengia hangchowensis, Yatsengia hupeiensis, Yatsengia ibukiensis, Yatsengia kabayamensis, Yatsengia kiangsuensis, Yatsengia kuzuensis, Yatsengia nondissepimenta, Yatsengia retiformis, Yatsengia simplex, Yatsengia singularis, Yatsengia suzukii, Yatsengia tuanshanensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Phnom Tup, south flank, Sisophon, which is in a Capitanian carbonate limestone in the Sisophon Formation of Cambodia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Phnom Tup, south flank, Sisophon

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