Ellipsocoenia d'Orbigny 1850 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae

Parent taxon: Latomeandridae according to R.C. Baron-Szabo 2021

See also Beauvais 1972 and Sepkoski 2002

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

Subtaxa: Ellipsocoenia barottei Ellipsocoenia carpathica Ellipsocoenia conferta Ellipsocoenia grandis Ellipsocoenia haimei Ellipsocoenia lobata Ellipsocoenia lorioli

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Oligocene of France (1 collection), Spain (1)

• Eocene of Indonesia (1), Spain (2)

• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Chile (1), France (1), Georgia (4), Germany (2), Greece (3), the Netherlands (1), Poland (3), Romania (1), Switzerland (5), Tanzania (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1)

• Jurassic of Greece (1)

Total: 32 collections including 38 occurrences

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