Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Parent taxon: Rhipidogyrinae according to D. K. Pandey and F. T. Fürsich 2003
See also Geyer 1955, Roniewicz 1976 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Codonosmilia, Hexaflos, Rhipidogyra
Subtaxa: Aplosmilia aspera Aplosmilia coalescens Aplosmilia distans Aplosmilia elegans Aplosmilia grandicosta Aplosmilia kobyi Aplosmilia magnifica Aplosmilia nuda Aplosmilia rotunda Aplosmilia rugosa Aplosmilia semisulcata Aplosmilia somaensis Aplosmilia suevica Aplosmilia tochikuboensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Spain (1 collection), Switzerland (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (1)
• Jurassic of Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (10), Georgia (3), Germany (3), Iran (2), Japan (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (3), Switzerland (2), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 39 collections including 51 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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