Phacelepismilia Beauvais 1976 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae

Full reference: L. Beauvais. 1976. Révision des Madréporaires liasiques décrits par Duncan (1867). Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 126:43-81

Parent taxon: Stylophyllidae according to L. Beauvais 1976

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Stolarski and Russo 2002

Sister taxa: Anthostylis, Cerioheterastraea, Coccophyllum, Discocoenia, Discocoeniopsis, Lepidophyllia, Maeandrostylis, Meandrostylophyllum, Molukkia, Monstroseris, Pamirophyllum, Phacelostylophyllum, Pinacophyllum, Pindosmilia, Protostylophyllum, Stylophyllopsis, Stylophyllum

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Glamorgan area, South Wales (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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