†Brachthelia Beauvais and Beauvais 1975 (stony coral)
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Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Alternative spelling: Bracthelia
Parent taxon: Agatheliidae according to G.M.A. El-Asa'ad 1989
See also Kiessling 2004 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Agathelia, Eothelia, Multicolumnastraea, Placophora
Subtaxa: Brachthelia collignoni Bracthelia bangoinensis
Type: Brachthelia collignoni
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Jurassic of China (1 collection), Italy (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences
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