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Corallium elegantum

Anthozoa - Gorgonacea

Taxonomy
Corallium elegantum was named by Kuzmicheva (1987). Its type locality is Chuku Mountain, Belbek River, Crimea, which is in a Santonian marine horizon in Ukraine.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Corallium elegantum Kuzmicheva

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
subclassOctocorallia
RankNameAuthor
orderGorgonaceaLamouroux 1816
genusCoralliumMarsigli 1766
specieselegantum

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.

Corallium elegantum Kuzmicheva 1987
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Created: 2009-05-11 22:09:29
Modified: 2009-05-12 00:09:29
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Bambach et al. 2007, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Santonian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 85.80000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Santonian85.8 - 83.5Ukraine Corallium elegantum (type locality: 86798)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Ukraine Corallium elegantum (86799)