Bosnopsammia
Oppenheim, 1909, p. 315
Type Species
Bosnopsammia katzeri Oppenheim, 1908: 315; Original Designation
Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Not Traced; Dry Preserved
Type Locality: Eocene: Arapovici, Yugoslavia
Synonyms
Remarks
Based on a single specimen, Oppenheim (1909, p. 315) described the colonial coral Bosnopsammia. Oppenheim stated that it showed eupsammiid characteristics, closely resembling the genera Coenopsammia and Stereopsammia. However, re-investigation by Oppenheim (1912, p. 106) on a larger amount of specimens collected from the type locality during the years after the first description, he revised his original diagnosis of the genus, stating that in well preserved specimens the development of septa, wall, and corallite integration rather indicated that it was a taxon closely related to the genus Actinacis. According to Oppenheim (1912), the genus Bosnopsammia is characterized by corallites embedded in a porous coenosteum with costosepta irregularly connecting them, frequently occurring nonconfluent septa, extracalicinal budding, costosepta having pores and granulated margins, corallite centers filled with trabecular-papillose columella with a more or less distinct development of paliform lobes. (Aslo see discussion in baron-Szabo, 2014a, p. 53),
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This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 06-Jan-2015 21:12.
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