Calamophylliopsis

Calamophylliopsis Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Late Oligocene ~189–23 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Hexacorallia
Order:	Scleractinia
Family:	†Dermosmiliidae
Genus:	†Calamophylliopsis Alloiteau 1952[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Cladophylliopsis Beauvais 1972

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

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

• List of prehistoric hexacoral genera

References

1. Madréporaires post-paléozoïques. J Alloiteau - Traité de paléontologie, 1952
2. "Calamophylliopsis". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 16 August 2016.