Pleurophyllia
Fromentel, 1856 p. 860
Type Species
Pleurophyllia trichotoma Fromentel 1856, p. 860; Monotypy
Type Specimen: Syntype; MNHN A32895; Verified; Dry Preserved
Type Locality: Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Mantoche (France)
Two pieces with the same number, one of them has a polished surface. The non polished syntype shows another corallite with a lamellar columella but not a cardinal septum. It should be discarded.
Classification
Description
(From the syntype) Probably phaceloid corallum (the polished syntype shows on one side a single corallite and on the other face, in correspondence, a set of three corallites not yet separated) Epitheca ?, no costae. Radial elements are compact, free, attenuated, smooth, straight, curved or sinuous, unequal. A cardinal septum thicker and longer than others. Inner edge attenuated or slightly clavate, lateral faces smooth, no pali. Microstructure unknown. Hexameral symmetry absent, bilateral symmetry strongly marked by the cardinal septum. Endotheca not observed , columella absent (but a columellar septum), synapticulae absent, wall peripheral and thick (sparitized on the syntype)
Remarks
7 Jurassic and one Cretaceous nominal species
Distribution
- Western Europe, Southern Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Subsaharan Africa, Central Asia; Middle Jurassic - Early Cretaceous
This page has been in preparation since 15-Jul-2010 17:45
This version was contributed by Bernard Lathuilière on 04-Mar-2011 14:37.
Page authors are: Bernard Lathuilière. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Bernard Lathuilière
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