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Brevimaeandra

Babaev, 1964, p.34

Brevimaeandra is possibly a junior synonym of Myriophyllia

Type Species

Brevimaeandra alizadei Babaev, 1964, p. 35, pl. 9 fig. 1; Original Designation

Type Specimen: Holotype; 10/11; Not Traced; Unknown

Type Locality: Upper Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) from Sharukar (Dashkesan, Azerbaijan)

The holotype is preserved in Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, GEOLOGY INSTITUTE,NATURAL-HISTORICAL MUSEUM http://www.gia.az The type was figured again in Babaev 1973

Description

Massive meandroid corallum, with sinuous valleys and tectiform collines, without ambulacrum. Radial elements compact, straight, curved or bent, free or anastomosed, confluent on collines, highly unequal in thickness. Distal edge, inner edge and lateral faces ornamented, no palis. Microstructure unknown. Hexameral symmetry cannot be deciphered, bilateral symmetry obvious with elongation of corallites and torsion of septa. Endotheca made of thin and common dissepiments, columella lamellar, synapticulae absent, wall present between series (septothecal ?).

Remarks

One nominal species

Distribution

  • Eastern Europe; Late Jurassic

This page has been in preparation since 15-Jul-2010 11:00

This version was contributed by Bernard Lathuilière on 28-Jan-2012 10:32.

Page authors are: Bernard Lathuilière. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.

The editor is: Bernard Lathuilière

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