Paraclausastrea
Zlatarski, 1968
Type Species
Paraclausastraea chevalieri Zlatarski, 1968: 18.; Original Designation Zlatarski, 1968: 18.
Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Not Traced; Unknown
Type locality: Aptian of Bulgaria.
Classification
Diagnosis
Massive thamnasterioid to submeandroid colony; cerio-thamnasterioid when corallites crowded. Budding mainly intracalicular, extracalicular budding observed in a small number of places. Septa compact, have montlivaltiid microstructure, are confluent to subconfluent, non-confluent in a small number of places, straight to curved, unequal in length. Their distal edges have acute or rounded teeth. Lateral flanks of septa have granules and carinae that are perpendicular to distal edge. Septa arranged in bilateral and radial symmetries. Columella absent or present. When present, it is formed by lamellar to sublamellar segments or irregularly shaped trabecular portions. Columella free or fused with one or more axial edges of septa. Paliform structures absent or ?present in a few corallites. Synapticulae ?present. Endothecal dissepiments vesicular to subtabulate. Wall absent or is formed by an incomplete paratheca.
Distribution
- Central Europe; Early Cretaceous
- Eastern Europe; Early Cretaceous
- South Asia; Early Cretaceous
Cretaceous: France, Iran, Georgia (Caucasus), Bulgaria.This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 09-Jun-2016 17:43.
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The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo
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