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Thecosmilia magna

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thecosmiliidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1864Thecosmilia magna Etallon
1864Thecosmilia magna Etallon and Thurmann pp. p. 385 figs. pl. 54 fig. 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
RankNameAuthor
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
familyThecosmiliidaeDuncan 1884
genusThecosmiliaMilne-Edwards and Haime 1848
speciesmagna

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Thecosmilia magna Etallon and Thurmann 1864
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Grouping: colonialo
Clonal: yeso
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: microcarnivoreo
Diet 2: photosymbiotico
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yeso
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-27 16:54:46
Modified: 2009-10-09 15:38:42
Source: o = order, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Bajocian to the top of the Late/Upper Tithonian or 170.90000 to 143.10000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Bajocian170.9 - 168.6Iran Thecosmilia magna (73966)
Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Tanzania Thecosmilia magna (85938)
Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Switzerland Thecosmilia magna (93094)
Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France (Bourgogne) Thecosmilia magna (93114)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8United Kingdom Thecosmilia magna (35300)
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian157.9 - 149.2Russian Federation Thecosmilia magna (90020)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian154.8 - 143.1Croatia (Primorsko-Goranska) Thecosmilia magna (85809)
Late/Upper Tithonian145.06 - 143.1Czechia Thecosmilia magna (36533 36539)