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Thamnastrea dumonti

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae

Taxonomy
Thamnastrea dumonti was named by Chapuis and Dewalque (1853). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Thamnastraea dumonti by Chapuis and Dewalque (1853); it was recombined as Thamnastraea (Synastraea) dumonti by de Fromentel (1861); it was misspelled as Thamnastraea dumonti by Milne-Edwards and Haime (1857), Kiessling (2008).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. favrei, T. urgonensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1853Thamnastraea dumonti Chapuis and Dewalque
1853Thamnastrea dumonti Chapuis and Dewalque p. 270 figs. pl. 38 fig. 11
1857Thamnastraea dumonti Milne-Edwards and Haime p. 575
1861Thamnastraea (Synastraea) dumonti de Fromentel p. 219
2008Thamnastrea dumonti Kiessling

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
RankNameAuthor
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
familyThamnasteriidaeVaughan and Wells 1943
genusThamnastreaLeSauvage 1823
speciesdumonti

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.

†Thamnastrea dumonti Chapuis and Dewalque 1853
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitef
Grouping: colonialf
Clonal: yesf
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryf
Attached: yesf
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: photosymbioticf
Diet 2: suspension feederf
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yesf
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2008-01-26 10:03:33
Modified: 2008-01-26 12:03:33
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Bajocian to the top of the Callovian or 170.90000 to 161.50000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Bajocian170.9 - 168.6Germany (Bayern) Thamnasteria dumonti (87043)
Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Romania (Central Dobrogea) Thamnastraea dumonti (38190)
Late/Upper Bathonian168.2 - 165.3United Kingdom (England) Thamnasteria dumonti (38159)
Callovian165.3 - 161.5Tunisia Thamnasteria dumonti (36661 36665)