Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Diploastraeidae
Alternative combination: Thegioastraea alternicosta
Full reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562
Belongs to Diploastrea according to W. Kiessling 2014
See also Chevalier 1961
Sister taxa: Diploastraea crassicostata, Diploastrea aequalicostata, Diploastrea aequalis, Diploastrea applanata, Diploastrea bacata, Diploastrea burdigalensis, Diploastrea coronata, Diploastrea costata, Diploastrea crassicostata, Diploastrea crassolamellata, Diploastrea diversiformis, Diploastrea heliopora, Diploastrea hilli, Diploastrea incerta, Diploastrea italica, Diploastrea magnifica, Diploastrea miocenica, Diploastrea multisepta, Diploastrea reussii, Diploastrea roasendai, Diploastrea rosacea, Diploastrea speciosa, Diploastrea superficialis, Diploastrea taurinensis, Diploastrea variabilis, Diploastrea vaughani
Type specimen: Its type locality is Le Peloua reef, Saucats Valley, Gironde, which is in a Burdigalian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Falun de Leognan Formation of France
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at Le Peloua reef, Saucats Valley, Gironde
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