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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