Thamnopora insculpta Hill 1942 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae

Full reference: D. Hill. 1942. Further Permian corals from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27:57-72

Belongs to Thamnopora according to D. Hill 1942

Sister taxa: Thamnopora compacta, Thamnopora densa, Thamnopora germanica, Thamnopora immensa, Thamnopora magniventra, Thamnopora marmionensis, Thamnopora reticulata, Thamnopora yavorskyi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Near Callytharra Springs (Teichert coll), which is in a Sakmarian marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Callytharra Formation of Australia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Near Callytharra Springs (Teichert coll)

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