Psilogyra
Felix, 1903, p. 309
Type Species
Psilogyra telleri Felix, 1903a: 309, pl. 24, fig. 4; Original Designation Felix, 1903a: 309
Type Specimen: Syntype; ; Verified; Dry Preserved
Type Locality: Upper Santonian of Austria (Gosau Group at Neffgraben).
The syntypes of the type species are housed at GBA (Vienna) and NHMW (Vienna) under 1903/309, Felix collection.
Classification
Diagnosis
Colony massive, meandroid. Individual corallites subdistinct to indistinct, forming long calicinal series separated by tectiform collines and ambulacrae. Septa thick, compact, nonconfluent, finely granulated to strongly beaded laterally. Reduced costae irregularly present. Columella absent, but trabecular extensions of axial septal ends can form a pseudo-columella. Wall septoparathecal. Endothecal and exothecal dissepiments vesicular.
Distribution
- Southern Europe; Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous
- Central Europe; Late Cretaceous
- Caribbean; Late Cretaceous
This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 08-Sep-2010 20:19.
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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