Trochoseris Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae

Synonym: Elliptoseris Duncan 1880

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

See also Baron-Szabo 2008, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1941

Sister taxa: Agaricia, Coeloseris, Cyathoseris, Helioseris, Heterogyra, Hydnophoroseris, Lamellofungia, Leptoseris, Maeandrella, Mioseris, Monticuliphyllia, Morphastrea, Ogilviastraea, Pachyseris, Pavona, Plocoastraea, Trochoseropsis, Valloria, Vaughanoseris

Subtaxa: Trochoseris aperta Trochoseris berica Trochoseris dachiardii Trochoseris florescens Trochoseris gerthi Trochoseris helianthoides Trochoseris lobata Trochoseris persica Trochoseris semiplana Trochoseris shattucki

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Miocene of Brazil (2 collections), Indonesia (6), Iran (3), Northern Mariana Islands (1)

• Oligocene of Cuba (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Panama (1)

• Eocene of Croatia (2), Cuba (1), Germany (1), Hungary (3), Jamaica (2), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), Somalia (3), Ukraine (1)

• Paleocene of Iran (1), Pakistan (2), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of Cuba (1), Jamaica (13), Mexico (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), United States (1: Texas)

Total: 55 collections including 58 occurrences

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