Stylina

Stylina
Temporal range: JurassicEocene 175.6–37.2 Ma
Stylina varii from Rhaetian of Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Subclass: Hexacorallia
Family: Stylinidae
Genus: Stylina
Lamarck, 1816

Stylina is an extinct genus of stony corals.

Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Jurassic to the Eocene (from about 175.6 to 37.2 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found in Europe, Canada, China, Pakistan, Paua New Guinea, Thailand, Japan, Somalia, Nigeria, Iran, Tanzania, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Madagascar, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Chile.[1]

References

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