Digitosmilia Beauvais 1972 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae

Full reference: L. Beauvais. 1972. Contribution a l'etude de la faune bathonienne dans la vallee de la Creuse (Indre): madreporaires [The Bathonian fauna in the Creuse Valley (Indre): corals]. Annales de Paleontologie, Invertebres 58(1):33-97

Parent taxon: Latomeandriidae according to L. Beauvais 1972

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Aggomorphastraea, Brachyseris, Collignonastraea, Comophyllia, Dimorphastrea, Ellipsocoenia, Fungiaphyllia, Fungiastraea, Latiastrea, Latomeandra, Loboseris, Microphyllia, Microphylliopsis, Mixastraea, Ovalastrea, Periseris, Thalamocaeniopsis, Thamnoseris, Trigerastraea, Trochoplegmopsis, Valliculastraea, Vallimeandra

Subtaxa: Digitosmilia fischeri

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Type: Digitosmilia fischeri

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Saint-Gaultier, Creuse Valley (Jurassic of France)

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