Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
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 Sphenotrochus according to T. W. Vaughan 1900
Sister taxa: Sphenotrochus aschistus, Sphenotrochus crispus, Sphenotrochus denhartogi, Sphenotrochus dumasi, Sphenotrochus gardineri, Sphenotrochus granulosus, Sphenotrochus milletianus, Sphenotrochus mixtus, Sphenotrochus pulchellus, Sphenotrochus semigranosus, Sphenotrochus senni, Sphenotrochus wellsi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Claiborne, which is in a Bartonian coastal sandstone in the Claiborne Sand Formation of Alabama
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution: found only at Claiborne
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