Enallhelia gracilis d'Orbigny 1850 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae

Full reference: A. d'Orbigny. 1850. Prodrome du paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphique 2:1-428

Belongs to Enallhelia according to Orbigny 1850

See also Löser 2010

Sister taxa: Enallhelia anomalos, Enallhelia compressa, Enallhelia corallina, Enallhelia cutigera, Enallhelia decussata, Enallhelia differencia, Enallhelia elegans, Enallhelia expansa, Enallhelia gemmata, Enallhelia gracilis, Enallhelia gresslyi, Enallhelia jurensis, Enallhelia multiradiata, Enallhelia nipponica, Enallhelia occidentalis, Enallhelia rathieri, Enallhelia somaensis, Enallhelia striata, Enallhelia tubulosa, Enallhelia venusta, Enallhelia vrsatecis

Type specimen: lectotype MNHN.F.B14283, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is St. Cassian (Munster coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Enallhelia gracilis in the database

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