Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Alternative spelling: Thamnaraea
Full reference: A. Etallon and J. Thurmann. 1864. Lethaea bruntrutana ou études paléontologiques et stratigraphiques sur les terrains jurassiques supérieurs du Jura bernois et en particulier des environs de Porrentruy (suite et fin). Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften 20:356-580
Parent taxon: Actinacididae according to R. C. Baron-Szabo 2003
See also Kiessling 2003 and Lathuilière and Gill 1998
Sister taxa: Actinacis, Actinhelia, Elephantaria
Subtaxa: Thamnarea hornosensis Thamnarea lithodes
Type: Thamnarea digitalis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (2 collections), Bulgaria (6), Mexico (1), Serbia (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1)
• Jurassic of Bulgaria (2)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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