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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Pocilloporidae : Stylophora : Stylophora minor |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Pocilloporidae : Stylophora : Stylophora minor |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Stylophora |
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| Scientific Name | Stylophora minor Duncan, 1863 |
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| Name Published In | Duncan, P.M. (1863). On the fossil corals of the West Indian Islands - Part I. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 19: 406-458, pls. 13-16. |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Stylophora minor | species | belongs to Stylophora | stated without evidence | Duncan, 1863 |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene |
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| Environment | marine (based on Scleractinia) |
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| Motility | stationary, attached (based on Scleractinia) |
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| Vision | blind (based on Anthozoa) |
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| Diet | microcarnivore, photosymbiotic (based on Scleractinia) |
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| Reproduction | alternating, asexual, dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Scleractinia) |
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| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Scleractinia) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | T. A. Stemann. 2003. Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica. Cainozoic Research 3(1-2):83-107 |
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| Stemann T. A. (2003) Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica, Cainozoic Research 3 1-2, 83-107 |
| Vaughan T. W. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species, United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39, 1-263 |
| Vaughan T. W. (1919) Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs, Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103, 189-524 |
| Duncan, P.M. (1863). On the fossil corals of the West Indian Islands - Part I. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 19: 406-458, pls. 13-16. - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Flórez, P.; Zapata-Ramírez, P.; Klaus, J. S. (2018). Early Miocene shallow-water corals from La Guajira, Colombia: Part II, Mussidae–Siderastreidae and Milleporidae. Journal of Paleontology. 93(3): 416-436. - via World Register of Marine Species |
Stylophora minor
