Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Plesiophyllia Koby 1884 is a junior homonym of Plesiophyllia Michelotti 1871
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Full reference: F. Koby. 1884. Monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse (4). Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse 11:149-212
Parent taxon: Montlivaltiidae according to C. Ricci et al. 2018
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Anisastraea, Brevimaeandra, Ceratothecia, Clausastrea, Coenotheca, Complexastraeopsis, Confusastrea, Cyathophyllia, Cyathophylliopsis, Dimorphocoenia, Elasmophyllia, Goldfussastraea, Goldfussastrea, Isastrea, Kobyphyllia, Mapucheastrea, Margarastreopsis, Montlivaltia, Nerthastraea, Neuquinosmilia, Paraclausastraea, Paraphyllogyra, Peplosmilia, Placosmilia, Placosmiliinae, Puschastraea, Rhabdophyllia, Trochophyllia, Trochosmilia
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Plesiophyllia in the database
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