Myriophyllia D'Orbigny 1849 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Eugyridae

Full reference: A. D'Orbigny. 1849. Note sur les polypiers fossiles. 3-12

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

See also Roniewicz 1976 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Eohydnophora, Eugyra, Pseudomyriophyllia

Subtaxa: Myriophyllia angustata Myriophyllia dumblei Myriophyllia loulensis Myriophyllia minima Myriophyllia petitclerci Myriophyllia propria Myriophyllia rastellina Myriophyllia tenuimaeandra

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (2 collections), Georgia (2), Germany (2), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Mexico (3), Romania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of China (1)

• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Czechia (1), France (4), Germany (1), Greece (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (1), Morocco (2), Poland (4), Portugal (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (1), Switzerland (3)

• Triassic of Italy (2), Timor-Leste (1), Türkiye (1)

Total: 52 collections including 62 occurrences

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