Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Aplosmiliidae
Alternative combinations: Ironella giseldonensis, Starostinia giseldonensis
Full reference: Y.e. V. Krasnov and E. A. Starostina. 1970. Pozdneyurskiye skleraktinii severnogo Kavkaza [Late Jurassic scleractinians of the northern Caucasus region]. in Mezozoyskiye korally SSSR [Mesozoic corals of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (4)75-80
Belongs to Bracthelia according to C. Ricci et al. 2018
See also Doweld 2014 and Krasnov and Starostina 1970
Sister taxa: Brachthelia collignoni, Bracthelia arabica, Bracthelia bangoinensis, Bracthelia collignoni, Bracthelia rutimeyeri, Bracthelia tskhanariensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Gizeldon River, N Caucasus, which is in a Tithonian marine limestone in the Russian Federation
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Slovenia (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (2)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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