Pachypora tumida Hinde 1890 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae

Full reference: G. J. Hinde. 1890. Notes on the palaeontology of Western Australia 2. Corals and Polyzoa. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 7:194-204

Belongs to Pachypora according to G. J. Hinde 1890

Sister taxa: Pachypora lamellicornis, Pachypora lapparenti, Pachypora lobata, Pachypora mongolia, Pachypora monstrosa, Pachypora pusilla, Pachypora tortuosa

Type specimen: Its type locality is Opposite Mount Krauss, Kimberley District, which is in a Frasnian carbonate limestone in Australia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Opposite Mount Krauss, Kimberley District

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