Complexastrea cotteaui d'Orbigny 1847 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae

Synonyms: Isastraea conybearei Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851, Isastrea conybearii Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851

Belongs to Complexastrea according to d'Orbigny 1847

See also de Fromentel 1861, Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857 and Wullschleger 1966

Sister taxa: Complexastraea sobkoviensis, Complexastrea carpathica, Complexastrea conybearei, Complexastrea coronata, Complexastrea dabroviensis, Complexastrea dobroljubovae, Complexastrea hemisphaerica, Complexastrea kachensis, Complexastrea kobyi, Complexastrea magna, Complexastrea major, Complexastrea multisepta, Complexastrea ngariensis, Complexastrea seriata, Complexastrea thevenini, Complexastrea zolleriana

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Hauptrogenstein, Bajocian, Tiersteinberg (Jurassic of Switzerland)

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