†Multicolumnastraea Vaughan 1899 (stony coral)
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Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1899. Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 34:227-250
Parent taxon: Agatheliidae according to R. C. Baron-Szabo et al. 2006
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Agathelia, Brachthelia, Eothelia, Placophora
Subtaxa: Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Puerto Rico (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Jamaica (8), Mexico (5), New Zealand (4), Spain (1)
Total: 20 collections including 21 occurrences
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