Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Tropiastraeidae
Alternative spelling: Gumbelastraea
Parent taxon: Tropiastraeidae according to G. K. Melnikova and E. Roniewicz 2017
See also Kiessling 2008, Sepkoski 2002, Stanley and Onoue 2015 and Turnsek 1997
Sister taxon: Thamnasteriamorpha
Subtaxa: Guembelastraea guembeli Guembelastraea kanmerae Guembelastraea martini Guembelastraea pamphyliensis Guembelastraea whiteavesi
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (1 collection), Canada (2: British Columbia), China (2), Greece (1), Italy (6), Japan (1), Slovenia (1), Türkiye (1), United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 16 collections including 19 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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