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Balanophyllia ponderosa

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae

Taxonomy

Balanophyllia ponderosa was named by Vaughan (1900). Its type locality is Prairie Creek, which is in a Paleocene coastal siliciclastic in Alabama.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

B. angusticalix, B. blakelyensis, B. cornu, B. demophyllum, B. dendrophylloides, B. desmophyllum, B. elaborata, B. fistula, B. haleana, B. inaequidens, B. irrorata, B. irrorata, B. malouinensis, B. subcylindrica, B. subirregularis, B. teglandi, B. circumsulcata, B. conicocompressa, B. elaborata, B. magna, B. parva

Synonyms

Balanophyllia traubi was named by Kühn and Traub (1967). Its type locality is Mt. Haunsberg, which is in a Paleocene coastal sandstone/marl in the Oiching Formation of Austria.

It was synonymized subjectively with Balanophyllia ponderosa by Baron-Szabo (2008).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1900	Balanophyllia ponderosa Vaughan
1967	Balanophyllia traubi Kühn and Traub

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
phylum	Cnidaria	Hatschek 1888
class	Anthozoa	Ehrenberg 1834
—	Hexacorallia	()
order	Scleractinia	Bourne 1900

Rank	Name	Author
suborder	Dendrophylliina	Vaughan and Wells 1943
family	Dendrophylliidae	Gray 1847
genus	Balanophyllia	Wood 1844
species	ponderosa

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.

†Balanophyllia ponderosa Vaughan 1900

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Invalid names: Balanophyllia traubi Kühn and Traub 1967 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
height	10	13.3	9.40	22.8	13.4	4.08

Composition:

aragoniteg

Grouping:

colonialo

Clonal:

yeso

Environment:

marineo

Locomotion:

stationaryo

Attached:

yeso

Life habit:

intermediate-level epifaunalo

Diet:

suspension feederg

Vision:

blindc

Reproduction:

alternatingo

Asexual:

yeso

Dispersal:

watero

Dispersal 2:

planktonico

Created:

2004-02-29 09:09:26

Modified:

2004-02-29 11:09:26

Source: g = genus, o = order, c = class

Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: Danian or 66.00000 to 61.66000 Ma

Collections (9 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Danian	66.0 - 61.66	USA (Texas)	Balanophyllia ponderosa (98701 109601 109613 122546)
Danian	66.0 - 61.66	USA (Alabama)	Balanophyllia ponderosa (2861)
Danian - Selandian	66.0 - 59.24	USA (Texas)	Balanophyllia ponderosa (108436)
Early/Lower Paleocene - Middle Paleocene	66.0 - 59.24	USA (Texas)	Balanophyllia ponderosa (86329)
Paleocene	66.0 - 56.0	Austria (Salzburg)	Balanophyllia traubi, Balanophyllia sp. (84335)
Paleocene	66.0 - 56.0	USA (Alabama)	Balanophyllia ponderosa (type locality: 87802)