Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Alternative combination: Amphiastraea basaltiformis
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
Belongs to Amphiastraea according to Koby 1888
See also Geyer 1955 and Pandey and Fürsich 2003
Sister taxa: Amphiastrea aethiopica, Amphiastrea cylindrica, Amphiastrea fallax, Amphiastrea gibberosa, Amphiastrea gracilis, Amphiastrea kamoensis, Amphiastrea monosepta, Amphiastrea paronai, Amphiastrea piriformis, Amphiastrea yabei, Connectastrea grandiflora
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Spain (2 collections)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Poland (1)
• Jurassic of Czechia (3), Ethiopia (1), France (1), Italy (1), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (2)
Total: 14 collections including 15 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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