Calamophylliopsis

Calamophylliopsis is a genus of extinct stony corals. They lived from the Early Jurassic to Late Oligocene (around 189 to 23 Ma).[2]

Calamophylliopsis
Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Late Oligocene
~189–23 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Order: Scleractinia
Family: †Dermosmiliidae
Genus: †Calamophylliopsis
Alloiteau 1952[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Cladophylliopsis Beauvais 1972

Species
  • C. cervina
  • C. compacta
  • C. compressa
  • C. crassa
  • C. elegans
  • C. etalloni
  • C. flabellum
  • C. fotisalensis
  • C. klothoensis
  • C. kyrvakarensis
  • C. lombricalis
  • C. marini
  • C. moreauana
  • C. sandbergeri
  • C. simonyi
  • C. stockesi
  • C. vidali
  • C. alternicosta

Distribution

Fossils of Calamophylliopsis have been registered in:[2]

Jurassic

Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, China, Colombia (Coquina Group, La Guajira), Croatia, the Czech Republic, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Morocco, Myanmar, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the Russian Federation, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan.

Cretaceous

Bulgaria, China, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, USSR, Ukraine, United States (Arizona), Uzbekistan, and Venezuela.

Paleocene

France

Eocene

Croatia

Oligocene

Slovenia

See also

References
  1. Madréporaires post-paléozoïques. J Alloiteau - Traité de paléontologie, 1952
  2. Calamophylliopsis at fossilworks.org (retrieved 16 August 2016)



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