Anthozoa - Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Alternative combination: Monilopora nicholsoni
Full reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1915. Western Australian Carboniferous fossils, chiefly from Mount Marmion, Lennard River, West Kimberley. Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 58:7-59
Belongs to Cladochonus according to S. M. Parfrey 1988
See also Etheridge 1915 and Hill 1942
Sister taxa: Cladochonus beecheri, Cladochonus carrascoi, Cladochonus crassus, Cladochonus magnus, Cladochonus shawi, Cladochonus striatus, Cladochonus tenuicollis, Cladochonus verrucatus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Mount Marmion (Maitland coll), which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in the Noonkanbah Formation of Australia
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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