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Echinophyllia robusta

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae

Taxonomy
Echinophyllia robusta was named by Gerth (1923). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kabasian River, Borneo, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in Indonesia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Echinophyllia robusta Gerth

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
RankNameAuthor
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
familyLobophylliidaeDai and Horng 2009
genusEchinophylliaKlunzinger 1879
speciesrobusta

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.

†Echinophyllia robusta Gerth 1923
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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 Miocene to the top of the Messinian or 23.03000 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Indonesia (Java) Echinophyllia robusta (62859)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333Indonesia Echinophyllia robusta (type locality: 108810)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Indonesia (South Sulawesi) Echinophyllia robusta (124781 124782)