Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae
Synonyms: Blastosmilia Etallon 1859, Miscellosmilia Eliasova 1976
Parent taxon: Axosmiliidae according to D. K. Pandey et al. 2000
See also Kiessling 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Turnsek and Mihajlovic 1973 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Axosmiliopsis, Columnaphyllia, Kobyphyllia, Pleurosmilia
Subtaxa: Axosmilia bangoinensis Axosmilia benoisti Axosmilia carrapateirensis Axosmilia caudata Axosmilia corallina Axosmilia craginiana Axosmilia crassa Axosmilia cylindrica Axosmilia excavata Axosmilia extinctorium Axosmilia famosa Axosmilia graciosa Axosmilia hayasakai Axosmilia hemisphaerica Axosmilia hideshimaensis Axosmilia infundibuliformis Axosmilia irradians Axosmilia kachensis Axosmilia kobyi Axosmilia marcou Axosmilia ngariensis Axosmilia pumila Axosmilia renevieri Axosmilia sessilis Axosmilia sinensis Axosmilia styphelos Axosmilia turbinata Axosmilia villersensis Axosmilia wrighti
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (5 collections), Greece (1), Japan (1), Poland (1), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Spain (3), Switzerland (3), United States (5: Texas)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (1)
• Jurassic of China (2), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (4), France (4), Germany (5), India (1), Iran (5), Jordan (1), Poland (1), Portugal (31), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (1), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 86 collections including 137 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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