Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 150612

Full reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562

Belongs to Acanthastrea according to J. P. Chevalier 1961

Sister taxa: Acanthastrea crenulata, Acanthastrea echinata, Acanthastrea hemprichii, Acanthastrea hillae, Acanthastrea horrida, Acanthastrea lordhowensis, Acanthastrea polygonalis, Acanthastrea termofurae

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder