Halysites grandis Sharkova 1981 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Halysitidae

Full reference: T. T. Sharkova. 1981. Siluriiskiye i devonskiye tabulyaty Mongolii [Silurian and Devonian Tabulata of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 14:5-104

Belongs to Halysites according to T. T. Sharkova 1981

Sister taxa: Catenipora communicans, Halysites agglomerata, Halysites amplitubata, Halysites approximata, Halysites attenuata, Halysites australis, Halysites brownsportensis, Halysites catenularia, Halysites catenularius, Halysites cavernosa, Halysites compactus, Halysites cratus, Halysites dichotoma, Halysites dissimilis, Halysites distans, Halysites encrustans, Halysites gamboolicus, Halysites harti, Halysites hupehensis, Halysites infundibuliformis, Halysites jacovickii, Halysites junior, Halysites keyserlingi, Halysites kuliki, Halysites labyrinthica, Halysites lata, Halysites lithostrotionoides, Halysites macrostoma, Halysites magnitubus, Halysites meandrina, Halysites nexus, Halysites nitida, Halysites orthopteroides, Halysites parallelus, Halysites peristephesicus, Halysites priscus, Halysites pseudoorthopteroides, Halysites pycnoblastoides, Halysites radiatus, Halysites regularis, Halysites reticulata, Halysites senior, Halysites sextocatenatus, Halysites simplex, Halysites stenostoma, Halysites sussmilchi, Halysites taimyrica

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mandal-Obo, Mushgai area, which is in a Wenlock shallow subtidal limestone/sandstone in Mongolia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Mandal-Obo, Mushgai area

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