Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263
Belongs to Mesomorpha according to T. W. Vaughan 1900
Sister taxa: Mesomorpha andrusovi, Mesomorpha bussoni, Mesomorpha chaetetoides, Mesomorpha dubia, Mesomorpha excavata, Mesomorpha magna, Mesomorpha mammillata, Mesomorpha minima, Mesomorpha newpassensis, Mesomorpha pesudomammosa, Mesomorpha pseudomammosa, Mesomorpha punctata, Mesomorpha pyanovskae, Mesomorpha simionescui, Mesomorpha urgonensis, Mesomorpha vaughani, Ahrdorffia ornata
Type specimen: Its type locality is Prairie Creek, which is in a Paleocene coastal siliciclastic in Alabama
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Prairie Creek
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