Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Comoseridae
Synonyms: Anabacia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849, Anabracia D'Orbigny 1849
Parent taxon: Comoseridae according to S.D. Cairns et al. 2010
See also Fischer 1969, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Araiophyllum, Dactylaraea, Dendraraea, Dermoseris, Dimorpharaea, Disaraea, Eocomoseris, Genabacia, Kobya, Litharaeopsis, Microsolena, Microsolenastraea, Mycetaraea, Partimeandra, Semeloseris, Tricycloseris, Trocharea, Trochoplegma, Comoseris, Hydnophoromeandraraea
Subtaxa: Anabacia bajociana Anabacia bouchardi Anabacia normaniana Chomatoseris hemispherica Chomatoseris iranensis Chomatoseris jacobi Chomatoseris orbulites Chomatoseris porpites
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1 collection), Algeria (1), Azerbaijan (1), Egypt (1), France (4), Georgia (1), India (2), Iran (7), Jordan (4), Morocco (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (11), Spain (1), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (5), the United Kingdom (11)
Total: 57 collections including 65 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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