Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Columastreidae
Full reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562
Parent taxon: Columastraeidae according to J. P. Chevalier 1961
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Columastrea, Eocolumastrea, Haimesastrea, Haimesiastraea, Stephanaxophyllia
Subtaxa: Palaeoplesiastraea batteriae Palaeoplesiastraea columnaeformis Palaeoplesiastraea corrugata Palaeoplesiastraea inaequalis Palaeoplesiastraea turonensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Algeria (4 collections), Egypt (1), France (2), Iran (1), Italy (4), Libya (2), Morocco (3), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Spain (6)
Total: 25 collections including 28 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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