†Saffordophyllum newcombae Flower 1961 (tabulate coral)
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Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Full reference: R. H. Flower. 1961. Montoya and related colonial corals. Memoir New Mexico State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources 7(1):3-97
Belongs to Saffordophyllum according to R. H. Flower 1961
Sister taxa: Saffordophyllum crenulatum, Saffordophyllum grande
Type specimen: Its type locality is El Paso, Franklin Mountains, which is in an Edenian shallow subtidal limestone in the Second Value Formation of Texas
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at El Paso, Franklin Mountains
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