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 Balanophyllia according to T. W. Vaughan 1900
Sister taxa: Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia), Balanophyllia acostae, Balanophyllia alta, Balanophyllia annularis, Balanophyllia augustinensis, Balanophyllia basedowi, Balanophyllia bavarica, Balanophyllia besairiei, Balanophyllia blakeleyensis, Balanophyllia calyculus, Balanophyllia campanulata, Balanophyllia cauliculata, Balanophyllia caulifera, Balanophyllia clarendonensis, Balanophyllia complanata, Balanophyllia compressa, Balanophyllia concinna, Balanophyllia conica, Balanophyllia cornurupicaprae, Balanophyllia cowlitzensis, Balanophyllia cumingii, Balanophyllia desmophyllum, Balanophyllia elegans, Balanophyllia formosana, Balanophyllia fossata, Balanophyllia fulleri, Balanophyllia gigas, Balanophyllia haleana, Balanophyllia hectori, Balanophyllia imperialis, Balanophyllia inauris, Balanophyllia induta, Balanophyllia irregularis, Balanophyllia irrorata, Balanophyllia italica, Balanophyllia nonaradiata, Balanophyllia oppenheimi, Balanophyllia oulangiformis, Balanophyllia parallela, Balanophyllia patera, Balanophyllia patula, Balanophyllia pittieri, Balanophyllia piuraensis, Balanophyllia ponderosa, Balanophyllia praelonga, Balanophyllia redivivus, Balanophyllia rovasendai, Balanophyllia salpynx, Balanophyllia soloensis, Balanophyllia striatissima, Balanophyllia teglandae, Balanophyllia thalassae, Balanophyllia torta, Balanophyllia truncata, Balanophyllia variabilis, Balanophyllia variabilis, Balanophyllia varians, Balanophyllia washingtonensis, Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cornurupicaprae, Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) sismondiana, Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) zelandiae, Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) zuffardii, Eupsammia compressa, Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica, Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis, Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) pachysepta, Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) meneghinii
Type specimen: Its type locality is Red Bluff, which is in a Rupelian marine horizon in the Red Bluff Formation of Mississippi
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (4: Mississippi collections)
• Eocene of the Netherlands (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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