Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Comoseridae
Alternative combination: Microsolena ornata
Full reference: F. Koby. 1887. Monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse (7). Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse 14:353-400
Belongs to Dimorpharaea according to H. Löser et al. 2024
See also Bendukidze 1949 and Pandey and Fürsich 2003
Sister taxa: Dimorpharaea aequiseptalis, Dimorpharaea burulchiensis, Dimorpharaea catalaunica, Dimorpharaea convexa, Dimorpharaea deickei, Dimorpharaea desori, Dimorpharaea expansa, Dimorpharaea globularis, Dimorpharaea japonica, Dimorpharaea koechlini, Dimorpharaea lehmani, Dimorpharaea lentiformis, Dimorpharaea lineata, Dimorpharaea manchacaensis, Dimorpharaea munsteri, Dimorpharaea stellans, Dimorpharaea tosaensis, Dimorpharaea williamsonensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Spain (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Georgia (2), Iran (10), Poland (3), Portugal (1), Slovenia (1), Switzerland (2)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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