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Madracis vaughani

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae

Taxonomy
Madracis vaughani was named by Wells (1941). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Negritos, Basal Restin, which is in an Eocene marine horizon in the Restin Formation of Peru.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. almerai

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1941Madracis vaughani Wells p. 309

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderAstrocoeniinaVaughan and Wells 1943
familyAstrocoeniidaeKoby 1890
genusMadracisMilne-Edwards and Haime 1849
speciesvaughani

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.

†Madracis vaughani Wells 1941
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available