Apocladophyllia Morycowa and Roniewicz 1990 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae

Full reference: E. Morycowa and E. Roniewicz. 1990. Revision of the genus Cladophyllia and description of Apocladophyllia gen. n. (Cladophylliidae fam. n., Scleractinia). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 35(3-4):165-190

Parent taxon: Cladophylliidae according to E. Morycowa and E. Roniewicz 1990

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Cellulastraea, Cladophyllia, Halysitastraea

Subtaxa: Apocladophyllia birleyae Apocladophyllia koniakensis Apocladophyllia neocomiensis

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (2 collections), France (2), Greece (2), Mexico (1), Switzerland (1)

• Jurassic of the Czech Republic (3), Iran (1), Poland (1), Slovenia (1), Uzbekistan (2)

Total: 16 collections each including a single occurrence

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