Agathelia Reuss 1854 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agatheliidae

Synonyms: Cenomanina, Ficariastraea Alloiteau 1952

Parent taxon: Agatheliidae according to R. C. Baron-Szabo 1997

See also Baron-Szabo 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Brachthelia, Eothelia, Multicolumnastraea, Placophora

Subtaxa: Agathelia asperella Agathelia minor Agathelia turbinata Agathelia urgonica

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Type: Agathelia asperella

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Libya (1 collection)

• Paleocene of Slovakia (1)

• Cretaceous of Armenia (1), Austria (4), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Greece (2), Iran (1), Mexico (1), Oman (2), Slovakia (2), Spain (1), Tanzania (1), Ukraine (2), the United Arab Emirates (2)

Total: 23 collections including 24 occurrences

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