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Enallhelia venusta

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae

Taxonomy
Enallhelia venusta was named by Wu (1975). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Woma Section JSJ28, Gyirong County, which is in a Pliensbachian/Toarcian marine horizon in China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Enallhelia venusta Wu p. 102 figs. Pl 6, figs 8-11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderStylininaAlloiteau 1952
familyStylinidaed'Orbigny 1851
subfamilyEuheliinaeFromentel 1861
genusEnallheliaMilne-Edwards and Haime 1849
speciesvenusta

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.

Enallhelia venusta Wu 1975
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Grouping: colonialf
Clonal: yesf
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: photosymbioticf
Diet 2: suspension feederf
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yeso
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2008-01-28 02:50:36
Modified: 2008-01-28 04:50:36
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Pliensbachian to the top of the Early/Lower Jurassic or 190.80000 to 174.70000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Jurassic201.4 - 174.7China (Xizang) Enallhelia venusta (126872)
Pliensbachian - Toarcian190.8 - 174.1China (Xizang) Enallhelia venusta (type locality: 110541)