Latiphyllia Fromentel 1861 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Diplocteniopsidae

Synonyms: Diplocteniopsis Zlatarski 1968, Glyphephyllia Fromentel 1873, Paradiplocteniopsis Zlatarski 1968, Plesiodiplcteniopsis Zlatarski 1968, Plesiodiplocteniopsis Zlatarski 1968

Parent taxon: Diplocteniopsidae according to A. Ilcheva and N. Motchurova-Dekova 2011

See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Baron-Szabo 2016, Hoeksma and Cairns 2022, Kiessling 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Turnsek 1997 and Wells 1956

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Diplocteniopsis (Diplocteniopsis) Diplocteniopsis (Ondadiplocteniopsis) Latiphyllia acutangularis Latiphyllia altae Latiphyllia bajociana Latiphyllia clausa Latiphyllia confluens Latiphyllia crassa Latiphyllia curvicalix Latiphyllia curvilateralis Latiphyllia dichotoma Latiphyllia dilatata Latiphyllia dimorphastreoides Latiphyllia grandis Latiphyllia mexicana Latiphyllia neocomiensis Latiphyllia obtusangularis Latiphyllia parallelacostata Latiphyllia parallelolateralis Latiphyllia praeramificenta Latiphyllia recticalix Latiphyllia rectilateralis Latiphyllia rhipidoida Latiphyllia suevica Latiphyllia thurmanni Latiphyllia trilateralis Latiphyllia truncata

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (3 collections), Bulgaria (2), Greece (2), Japan (2), Mexico (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Switzerland (2), Turkmenistan (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Spain (1)

• Jurassic of Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (6), France (1), Georgia (5), Germany (9), Iran (2), Italy (2), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (2), Switzerland (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 53 collections including 74 occurrences

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