Protaraea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Coccoserididae

Synonym: Stylaraea Von Seebach 1866 [replaced name]

Parent taxon: Coccoserididae according to D. Hill 1981

See also Bayer et al. 1956, Sepkoski 2002 and Twenhofel 1938

Sister taxa: Acidolites, Coccoseris

Subtaxa: Protaraea diffluens Protaraea procella Protaraea richmondensis Stylaraea parva

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Silurian of Canada (1: Ontario collection), Estonia (1), India (2)

• Chazyan of United States (6: New York)

• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (5: Nunavut, Ontario), China (2), Estonia (7), the Russian Federation (1), United States (50: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio)

Total: 76 collections each including a single occurrence

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