Scleractinia taxon details
Stephanastrea ramulifera Etallon, 1864 †
1455176 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1455176)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Etallon, A. (1864). Classe des Polypes; Classe des Foraminifères. In: Etallon, A.; Thurmann, J., Lethaea bruntutana ou etudes paleontoloqiques et stratigraphiques dur les terrains jurassiques superieur du Jura bernois. <em>Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Zürich.</em> 20: 355-500, pls. 1-62., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13204970 [details] 
Note Oxfordian (Epicorallien of Etallon, Upper...
Type locality Oxfordian (Epicorallien of Etallon, Upper Jurassic) of Laufon (Switzerland). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Stephanastrea ramulifera Etallon, 1864 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1455176 on 2026-07-11
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Etallon, A. (1864). Classe des Polypes; Classe des Foraminifères. In: Etallon, A.; Thurmann, J., Lethaea bruntutana ou etudes paleontoloqiques et stratigraphiques dur les terrains jurassiques superieur du Jura bernois. <em>Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Zürich.</em> 20: 355-500, pls. 1-62., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13204970 [details] 
basis of record Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
additional source Morsch SM. (1996). Les Scléractiniaires jurassiques (Bajocien) d'Argentine (Bassin de Neuquén). Systématique. <em>Geobios.</em> 29(6): 671-706., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-6995(96)80016-7 [details]
basis of record Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
additional source Morsch SM. (1996). Les Scléractiniaires jurassiques (Bajocien) d'Argentine (Bassin de Neuquén). Systématique. <em>Geobios.</em> 29(6): 671-706., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-6995(96)80016-7 [details]
Syntype n° ??, verbatimGeounit Oxfordian (Epicorall... [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Oxfordian (Epicorallien of Etallon, Upper Jurassic) of Laufon (Switzerland). [details]