Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Parent taxon: Desmophyllinae according to W. Kiessling 2003
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Dasmia, Dasmiopsis, Stelloria, Tiarasmilia
Subtaxa: Desmophyllum cantamessi Desmophyllum castellolense Desmophyllum conulatum Desmophyllum coulsoni Desmophyllum decuplum Desmophyllum dianthus Desmophyllum excavatum Desmophyllum exclavatum Desmophyllum joannense Desmophyllum laevicostatum Desmophyllum lirioides Desmophyllum semicostatum Desmophyllum striatum Desmophyllum taurinense Desmophyllum willcoxi
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (12 collections), Italy (1), Maldives (2), North Atlantic (1)
• Miocene of France (1), Germany (1), Grenada (2), Italy (4), Spain (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (1), Spain (3), Tonga (1)
• Paleocene of Egypt (2), Greenland (1)
• Cretaceous of Denmark (1), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), the Russian Federation (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2)
Total: 43 collections including 61 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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