Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Alternative spelling: Etallonia
Full reference: E. Roniewicz. 1966. Les Madreporaires du Jurassic superieur de la bordure des Monts de Sainte-Croix, Pologne [Upper Jurassic Scleractinia from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland]. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 11(2):157-264
Parent taxon: Acroporidae according to E. Morycowa and D. Decrouez 2006
See also Roniewicz 1987, Sepkoski 2002 and Turnsek 1997
Sister taxa: Acropora, Alveopora, Anacropora, Astreopora, Bacarella, Dendracis, Diplocoenia, Gravieropsammia, Isopora, Montipora, Palaestraeopora, Paretallonia
Subtaxa: Etallonasteria minima
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Poland (2 collections), Switzerland (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (2), China (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (4), Georgia (2), Greece (1), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Portugal (5), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), Slovenia (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 30 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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