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Parastraea

Felix, 1903, p. 181

Parastraea Felix, 1903, p. 181 is a junior homonym (unavailable), see Parastraea Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848 (the senior homonym).

Type Species

Parastraea grandiflora Reuss, 1854, p. 120, pl. 16, fig. 10; Monotypy Felix, 1903, p. 181

Type Specimen: Holotype; unknown; Not Traced; Unknown

Type Locality: Upper Turonian to Campanian of Austria (Gosau Group).

The type material of the type species is housed at NHMW (Vienna) under 1864/0040/1395, Reuss collection.

Classification

Remarks

When Reuss (1854) created the species Parastraea grandiflora, he made clear that he was referring to the genus Parastraea Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848. Felix (1903, p. 181) was the first revisor who realized that the material by Reuss differed from the genus by Milne Edwards and Haime but he kept the genus name as Parastraea Reuss because, at that time, Milne Edwards himself had grouped their Parastraea as a junior synonym with Favia. However, regardless of whether or not the senior Parastraea is an objective or subjective junior synonym of another genus, it remains a valid genus name which has priority over any subsequent taxon with the same name. In providing a discussion with clearly establishing a new genus, Felix (1903, p.181) became the author of the new taxon that is Parastraea Felix (with Parastraea grandiflora Reuss as its type species), which at the same time became the junior homonym of Parastraea Milne Edwards and Haime. Later, Oppenheim (1930) used the holotype the type species of Parastraea Felix in order to create the genus Pseudofavia Oppenheim, 1930.

Distribution

  • Central Europe; Late Cretaceous

This page has been in preparation since 02-Sep-2010 13:51

This version was contributed by Ken Johnson on 15-Jan-2013 15:45.

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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