Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae

Alternative combination: Rhectopsammia claibornensis

Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263

Belongs to Endopachys according to W. Kiessling 2008

Sister taxa: Endopachys grayi, Endopachys lonsdalei, Endopachys maclurii, Endopachys minutum, Endopachys tampae

Type specimen: Its type locality is Claiborne, which is in a Bartonian coastal sandstone in the Claiborne Sand Formation of Alabama

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic