Brachthelia Beauvais and Beauvais 1975 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agatheliidae

Alternative spelling: Bracthelia

Parent taxon: Agatheliidae according to G.M.A. El-Asa'ad 1989

See also Kiessling 2004 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Agathelia, Eothelia, Multicolumnastraea, Placophora

Subtaxa: Brachthelia collignoni Bracthelia bangoinensis

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Type: Brachthelia collignoni

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Jurassic of China (1 collection), Italy (1), Saudi Arabia (1)

Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences

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