Caninia mansuyi Fontaine 1961 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Cyathopsidae

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 Caninia according to H. Fontaine 1961

Sister taxa: Caninia complexa, Caninia corniculum, Caninia cornucopiae, Caninia lingwuensis, Caninia mapingensis, Caninia minima, Caninia montanensis, Caninia ovibos, Caninia tabulata, Caninia torquia

Type specimen: Its type locality is Thanh-Moi, Lang Son district, which is in an Asselian/Sakmarian carbonate limestone in Vietnam

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Thanh-Moi, Lang Son district

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