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Trochocyathus
Trochocyathus sp., Black Jurassic, Germany
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hexacorallia
Order: Scleractinia
Family: Caryophylliidae
Genus: Trochocyathus
Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848
Species
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Trochocyathus is a genus of corals in the family Caryophylliidae. Living species are found in waters near Hawai'i at depths of 64 to 1,020 meters (210 to 3,346 ft).[1] Fossil species are found as far back as the latest Paleocene in the Dilwyn Formation of Australia,[2] in the late Cretaceous in the Woodbury Formation of New Jersey,[3] and in Suffolk.[4]

Platycyathus is sometimes regarded as a subgenus within Trochocyathus.[2][5]

Species

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Parrish, FA; Baco-Taylor, AR; Kelley, C; Cairns, SD; Hourigan, TF (2017). "Deep-Sea Coral Taxa in the Hawaiian Archipelago and other U.S. Pacific Islands: Depth and Geographical Distribution" (PDF). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b Stilwell, Jeffrey D. (January 2003). "Macropalaeontology of the Trochocyathus-Trematotrochus band (Paleocene/Eocene boundary), Dilwyn Formation, Otway Basin, Victoria". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 27 (4): 245–275. doi:10.1080/03115510308619107. S2CID 85147299.
  3. ^ Squires, D.F.; Richards, H.G. (1958). "Some Upper Cretaceous corals from New Jersey". American Museum Novitates (1911).
  4. ^ a b Duncan, P. M. (1 February 1872). "On Trochocyathus anglicus, a new species of Madreporaria from the Red Crag". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 28 (1–2): 447–449. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1872.028.01-02.51. S2CID 131584555.
  5. ^ Stilwell, Jeffrey D.; Gallagher, Stephen J. (August 2009). "Biostratigraphy and macroinvertebrate palaeontology of the petroleum-rich Belfast Mudstone (Sherbrook Group, uppermost Turonian to mid-Santonian), Otway Basin, southeastern Australia". Cretaceous Research. 30 (4): 873–884. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.01.006.