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Hydnophorastraea

Beauvais, 1982

Type Species

Thamnastraea carinata Felix, 1903, p. 210, pl. 23, figs. 1-3; Original Designation Beauvais, 1982, vol. 2, p. 135

Type Specimen: Lectotype; ; Not Traced; Unknown

Type Locality: Upper Santonian of Austria (Neffgraben, Gosau Group).

The lectotype is housed at NHMW (Vienna) under 1864/0040/1379, Felix collection. Additional original material (syntypes) are housed at GBA (Vienna), Felix collection, and NHMW (Vienna), Felix collection.

Classification

Remarks

Beauvais (1982, vol. 2, p. 135) places his newly created genus Hydnophorastraea in the Family Synastreidae. However, re-investigation of the type material (Baron-Szabo, between the years 1999 and 2009) revealed that is showed agariciid skeletal structures.

Distribution

  • Central Europe; Late Cretaceous

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

This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 06-Jul-2013 19:49.

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

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