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Acropora piedmontensis

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Acropora piedmontensis
Temporal range: Burdigalian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hexacorallia
Order: Scleractinia
Family: Acroporidae
Genus: Acropora
Species:
†A. piedmontensis
Binomial name
†Acropora piedmontensis
Wallace & Bosselini, 2015

Acropora piedmontensis is an extinct species of stony coral within the family Acroporidae.[1] The species was described from Piedmont, Italy, east of the city Turin, where it was found to have lived in the Burdigalian age in the early Miocene, 20.44 to 15.97 MYA.[2][3][4]

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