Bathycyathus pulcher Vaughan 1900 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae

Alternative combination: Steriphonotrochus pulcher

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 Bathycyathus according to W. Kiessling 2008

See also Vaughan 1900

Sister taxa: Bathycyathus corneti, Bathycyathus laevigatus, Bathycyathus lloydi, Bathycyathus matheroni, Bathycyathus piveteaui, Bathycyathus termofurae

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 microcarnivore

Distribution: found only at Red Bluff

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