Rhipidogyra Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae

Synonym: Fromentelligyra Alloiteau 1952

Parent taxon: Rhipidogyrinae according to D. K. Pandey and F. T. Fürsich 2003

See also Lathuilière 2024, Roniewicz 1976, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956

Sister taxa: Codonosmilia, Hexaflos

Subtaxa: Rhipidogyra alata Rhipidogyra costata Rhipidogyra crassa Rhipidogyra deshayesi Rhipidogyra elegans Rhipidogyra flabellum Rhipidogyra gigantea Rhipidogyra insignis Rhipidogyra meandra Rhipidogyra minima Rhipidogyra percrassa Rhipidogyra ruetimeyeri

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Type: Lobophyllia flabellum

Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (1 collection), Bulgaria (6), Spain (1), Tunisia (1)

• Jurassic of Czechia (3), France (4), Georgia (2), Germany (9), Iran (1), Italy (3), Montenegro (1), Morocco (2), Poland (3), Portugal (8), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (2), Ukraine (1)

Total: 51 collections including 66 occurrences

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