Omphalophylliopsis Beauvais 1986 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Conophyllidae

Full reference: L. Beauvais. 1986. Monographie des Madreporaires du Jurassique Inferieur du Maroc (Monograph on Lower Jurassic Corals of Morocco). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 194(1-3):1-68

Parent taxon: Conophylliidae according to L. Beauvais 1986

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Craspedosmilia, Ellipsoidastraea, Isastrocoenia, Myriophyllum, Omphalophyllia, Rhopalodendron

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at J. Bou Dahar (Beni Tadjit), Atlas Mountains (Jurassic of Morocco)

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