Chomatoseris Thomas 1935 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae

Synonym: Anabacia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849

Parent taxon: Microsolenidae according to J. W. Wells 1956

See also Fischer 1969 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Araiophyllum, Comoseris, Dactylaraea, Dendraraea, Dermoseris, Dimorpharaea, Disaraea, Eocomoseris, Genabacia, Hydnophoromeandraraea, Kobya, Litharaeopsis, Microsolena, Microsolenastraea, Mycetaraea, Semeloseris, Tricycloseris, Trocharea, Trochoplegma

Subtaxa: Chomatoseris hemispherica Chomatoseris iranensis Chomatoseris jacobi Chomatoseris orbulites Chomatoseris porpites

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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

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