Silesiastraea
Morycowa, 1988:108
Type Species
Silesiastraea weissermeli Morycowa 1988:109,pl.8:figs1,2; pl.9: fig.3, text-fig.9; Monotypy Morycowa 1988:109
Type Specimen: Syntype; UJ 34P/34-36; Verified; Dry Preserved
Type Locality: Kamien Slaski near Opole, Silesian region, SW Poland. Karchowice Beds, lowermost Muschelkalk, Anisian, Middle Triassic
Classification
Diagnosis
Meandroid-thamnasterioid, series short with distinct or subdistinct corallites; increase intracalicular with indirect linkages; wall rarely observed on the colony surface; radial elements compact, nonconfluent, subconfluent, rarely confluent, composed of fairly large trabeculae ( (diameter ca. 100-160 micrometers) arranged in one asymmetrical divergent system; distal septal margin covered with large, rounded denticles, inner margin with trabecular projections, septa faces with pennules and menianes with granulated edges, septal surface with longitudinal rows of fine granules; columella trabecular, endotheca of extended dissepiments.
Comparisons
From morphologically similar Latimeandra vogelsangi Eck from the Upper Muschelkalk, it differs in meandroid-thamnasterioid colony with shallow calices distally having no traces of wall, and in having a low number of septa and less developed columella.
Distribution
- Central Europe; Middle Triassic
This middle Anisian genus represents the earliest stratigraphically scleractinians.This page has been in preparation since 16-Oct-2010 13:14
This version was contributed by Ewa Roniewicz on 07-Nov-2010 11:12.
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The editor is: Ewa Roniewicz
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