Anthozoa - Favositida - Palaeacidae

Synonym: Palaeacis cuneata Snider 1915

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1910. New genera and species of Carboniferous fossils from the Fayetteville shale of Arkansas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20(3):189-238

Belongs to Palaeacis according to W. J. Sando 1969

See also Girty 1910 and Snider 1915

Sister taxa: Palaeacis cuneiformis, Palaeacis regularis, Palaeacis tubifer

Type specimens:

• Palaeacis carinata: USNM 158780 (coral)
• Palaeacis cuneata:

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at USNM 2839. Small knob near center of sec. 23 T. 21 N., R. 29 W. (Carboniferous of Arkansas)

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