Endopachys minutum Vaughan 1900 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae

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 Endopachys according to T. W. Vaughan 1900

Sister taxa: Endopachys alticostatum, Endopachys claibornensis, Endopachys expansum, Endopachys grayi, Endopachys lonsdalei, Endopachys maclurii, Endopachys tampae, Endopachys triangulare

Type specimen: Its type locality is Jackson, which is in a Priabonian marine horizon in Mississippi

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Jackson

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