Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Alternative combination: Leptophyllastraea vaughani
Full reference: J. W. Durham. 1942. Eocene and Oligocene coral faunas of Washington. Journal of Paleontology 16(1):84-104
Belongs to Dimorphastrea according to W. Kiessling 2008
See also Durham 1942 and López-Pérez 2005
Sister taxa: Dimorphastraea renevieri, Dimorphastraea triadica, Dimorphastrea bellula, Dimorphastrea composita, Dimorphastrea concentrica, Dimorphastrea conica, Dimorphastrea cosmanni, Dimorphastrea delaunayi, Dimorphastrea dubia, Dimorphastrea excavata, Dimorphastrea explanata, Dimorphastrea fallax, Dimorphastrea fungiformis, Dimorphastrea glomerata, Dimorphastrea grandiflora, Dimorphastrea heteromorpha, Dimorphastrea irradians, Dimorphastrea irregulare, Dimorphastrea lamellosa, Dimorphastrea mitodaensis, Dimorphastrea parvistella, Dimorphastrea petalophyes, Dimorphastrea radiata, Dimorphastrea ratshensis, Dimorphastrea regularis, Dimorphastrea scutellum, Dimorphastrea solida, Dimorphastrea speciosa, Dimorphastrea stantoni, Dimorphastrea subturonensis, Dimorphastrea sulcosa, Dimorphastrea tendagurensis, Dimorphastrea tenuistriata, Dimorphastrea tenustriata, Dimorphastrea toucasi, Dimorphastrea udzlourensis, Dimorphastrea vasiformis, Dimorphastrea waehneri
Type specimen: Its type locality is UCMP Loc. A-3206 - Observatory Point [Crescent Fm], which is in a Ypresian marine volcaniclastic in the Crescent Formation of Washington.
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at UCMP Loc. A-3206 - Observatory Point [Crescent Fm]
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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