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Pseudofavia

Oppenheim, 1930, p. 65

Type Species

Parastraea grandiflora Reuss, 1854: 120; Subsequent Designation Oppenheim, 1930: 65

Type Specimen: Syntype; NHMW 1864/VII/1385; Verified; Unknown

Type Locality: Turonian-Campanian (probably Santonian) of Austria (Gosau Group)

The syntypes of the type species are housed at NHMW (Vienna) under 1864/00040/1395 and 1864/VII/1385.

Classification

Diagnosis

Colonial, massive, plocoid to subcerioid. Gemmation extracalicinal. Corallites separated by a vermiculate coenosteum. Costae short. Costosepta compact to subcompact, nonconfluent, granulated laterally. Anastomosis present. Columella trabecular. Synapticulae abundant. Endothecal dissepiments vesicular, sparse. Wall synapticulothecal to parathecal, incomplete.

Remarks

See also discussion under Remarks of Parastraea Felix.

Distribution

  • Southern Europe; Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous
  • Central Europe; Late Cretaceous
  • Eastern Europe; Late Cretaceous
Late Cretaceous: Georgia (Caucasus), UAE.

This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36

This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 08-Sep-2010 16:51.

Page authors are: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.

The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo


Pseudofavia grandiflora (Reuss, 1854), syntype (left) and topotype
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