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Desmopsammia

Reis, 1889, p. 108

Type Species

Desmophyllum subcylindricum Philippi, 1851, p.; Subsequent Designation Felix, 1925, p. 158

Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Not Traced; Dry Preserved

Type Locality: Early Oligocene: Italy

Classification

Diagnosis

Corallum colonial, corallites budding from a common basal coenosteum; septa in a Pourtalès plan.

Comparisons

Close to Cladopsammia but may in fact be solitary and thus closer to Balanophyllia.

Remarks

Considered to be a dendrophylliid genus of uncertain position by Cairns (2001, p. 37) since the characteristics of the type species does not allow proper characterization. Two species, both fossil.

Distribution

  • Eastern Europe; Oligocene
Early Oligocene: Italy.

This page has been in preparation since 07-Jul-2008 20:44

This version was contributed by Stephen D. Cairns on 31-Oct-2008 20:03.

Page authors are: Stephen D. Cairns. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.

The editor is: Stephen D. Cairns

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