Protoseris Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae

Parent taxon: Calamophylliidae according to J. W. Wells 1956

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Antilloseris, Baryphyllia, Calamophyllia, Ferrya, Gonioseris, Gyrodendron, Rabdastrea, Sematethmos, Stiboria, Viminohelia

Subtaxa: Protoseris jaccardi Protoseris placenta Protoseris recurvata Protoseris robusta Protoseris suevica Protoseris waltoni

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Type: Protoseris waltoni

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (7 collections), Trinidad and Tobago (1)

• Jurassic of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (2), Poland (2), Portugal (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 17 collections including 21 occurrences

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