Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Volzeiidae
Alternative combination: Thecosmilia badiotica
Belongs to Volzeia according to G. D. Stanley and T. Onoue 2015
See also Cuif 1966
Sister taxa: Volzeia carpathica, Volzeia chagyabensis, Volzeia degeensis, Volzeia subdichotoma, Volzeia szulci
Type specimen: Its type locality is Forcella di Sett Sass, Italy, which is in a Carnian shallow subtidal marl in the Cassian Formation of Italy
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Morocco (1 collection)
• Triassic of China (1), Greece (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (4), Slovenia (10), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (1)
Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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