Latomeandra Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae

The authorship is in fact d'Orbigny in Milne Edwards et Haime 1849

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Alternative spellings: Latimaeandra, Latomaeandra

Synonym: Chorisastrea Fromentel 1861

Parent taxon: Latomeandridae according to E. Roniewicz 1976

See also Laube 1865, Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956

Sister taxa: Aggomorphastraea, Brachyseris, Collignonastraea, Comophyllia, Digitosmilia, Dimorphastrea, Ellipsocoenia, Fungiaphyllia, Fungiastraea, Latiastrea, Loboseris, Microphyllia, Microphylliopsis, Mixastraea, Ovalastrea, Periseris, Thalamocaeniopsis, Thamnoseris, Trigerastraea, Trochoplegmopsis, Valliculastraea, Vallimeandra

Subtaxa: Latomaeandra labyrinthica Latomeandra bonjouri Latomeandra delemontana Latomeandra dubia Latomeandra ducreti Latomeandra extensa Latomeandra fromenteli Latomeandra germaini Latomeandra gresslyi Latomeandra heimi Latomeandra irregularis Latomeandra isseli Latomeandra juettneri Latomeandra mayeri Latomeandra minor Latomeandra mitodaensis Latomeandra obliqua Latomeandra orthogrammica Latomeandra plicata Latomeandra ramosa Latomeandra ramosa Latomeandra renevieri Latomeandra richei Latomeandra sinuosa Latomeandra steini

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of Pakistan (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Bulgaria (9), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (3), Romania (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (2)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (2)

• Jurassic of Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (1), Chile (1), the Czech Republic (3), Ethiopia (1), France (6), Germany (10), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Japan (3), Lebanon (1), Myanmar (1), Poland (1), Portugal (11), Romania (4), Slovenia (3), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), Thailand (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of China (1)

Total: 81 collections including 93 occurrences

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