Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Alternative spellings: Heliocenia, Heliocienia
Synonyms: Alloiteaucoenia Beauvais 1964 [objective synonym], Dendrohelia Etallon 1860
Full reference: A. Étallon. 1859. Etudes paléontologiques sur le Haut-Jura. Rayonnés du Corallien. Mémoires de la Société d'Emulation du département du Doubs 3(3):401-553
Parent taxon: Stylininae according to D. K. Pandey and F. T. Fürsich 2003
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Beauvais 1994, Kiessling 2008, Roniewicz 1976, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxon: Psammohelia
Subtaxa: Alloiteaucoenia (Kobycoenia) Dendrohelia mamillaris Heliocoenia (Hexaheliocoenia) Heliocoenia (Octoheliocoenia) Heliocoenia bendukidzeae Heliocoenia catenula Heliocoenia claudiopolisensis Heliocoenia corallina Heliocoenia costulata Heliocoenia decora Heliocoenia dendroidea Heliocoenia etalloni Heliocoenia gracilis Heliocoenia humberti Heliocoenia kabakovitschae Heliocoenia kakhadzei Heliocoenia lamellosa Heliocoenia minima Heliocoenia orbignyi Heliocoenia pakongensis Heliocoenia picteti Heliocoenia pseudocorallina Heliocoenia rarauensis Heliocoenia rozkowskae Heliocoenia sparsa Heliocoenia stellata Heliocoenia strambergensis Heliocoenia thiollieri Heliocoenia triradiata Heliocoenia vadosa Heliocoenia variabilis Heliocoenia vesicularia Heliocoenia vigintiseptata Heliocoenia zaglica
Type: Heliocoenia variabilis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (5 collections), Bulgaria (4), China (2), the Czech Republic (8), France (7), Georgia (10), Germany (1), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Mexico (3), Poland (4), Romania (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (3), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (3)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), Japan (1), Poland (1)
• Jurassic of Azerbaijan (8), Belarus (1), China (1), Colombia (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (7), Ethiopia (3), France (8), Georgia (10), Germany (4), India (1), Iran (5), Italy (3), Poland (12), Portugal (15), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovenia (6), Spain (5), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (1), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 165 collections including 220 occurrences
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