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Coryphyllia xiaanensis

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae

Taxonomy
Coryphyllia xiaanensis was named by Deng and Kong (1984). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Xia'an, Zhenfeng (Chen-feng), which is in a Longobardian platform/shelf-margin reef reef rocks in the Zhuganpo Formation of China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. subregularis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1984Coryphyllia xiaanensis Deng and Kong p. 494 figs. Pl 1, fig 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderDistichophylliinaBeauvais 1980
familyReimaniphylliidaeMelnikova 1975
subfamilyCoryphylliinaeBeauvais 1981
genusCoryphylliaCuif 1974
speciesxiaanensis

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†Coryphyllia xiaanensis Deng and Kong 1984
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available