Rhopalodendron Turnsek and Buser 1989 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Conophyllidae

Full reference: D. Turnsek and S. Buser. 1989. The Carnian reef complex on the Pokljuka (NW Yugoslavia). Razprave Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, 4. razred 30:75-127

Parent taxon: Conophyllidae according to D. Turnsek 1997

See also Bernecker 1996

Sister taxa: Craspedosmilia, Ellipsoidastraea, Isastrocoenia, Myriophyllum, Omphalophyllia, Omphalophylliopsis

Subtaxa: Rhopalodendron juliensis

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Type: Rhopalodendron juliensis

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Triassic of Austria (1 collection), Greece (1), Oman (2), Slovenia (3)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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