Agathiphyllia
Reuss, 1864, p. 15
Type Species
Agathiphyllia explanata Reuss, 1864: 15, pl. 2, figs 7-9; Subsequent Designation Vaughan, 1919: 194
Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Verified; Unknown
Type Locality: Type locality: Lower Oligocene of Slovenia (Gornji Grad, Oberburg).
The holotype of the type species is housed at the GBA under 1864/2/25
Classification
Diagnosis
Colonial, submassive, plocoid, Gemmation extracalicinal. Costosepta compact, nonconfluent; costae strongly developed. Columella trabecular; strong paliform lobes present. Wall synapticulothecal, septothecal due to secondary thickening. Endothecal dissepiments vesicular.
Remarks
Paleocene of Austria, Italy, and Slovenia, Eocene of Bosnia, France (Nice), Herzegovina, Italy, and ?Syria, Middle Eocene of the USA (California), Upper Eocene of Panama (Gatuncillo Formation) and Spain, Lower Oligocene of Bulgaria and Mexico (Rancho Berlin Sandstone), Oligocene of Germany (Bavaria), Italy (Crosara, Monte Grumi, ?Savona, ?Sassello), Jamaica, Slovenia, Somalia, and the ?Dominican Republic (see Frost and Langenheim, 1974, p. 261), Upper Oligocene of Antigua (Antigua Formation), Cuba, Iran (Qom Formation), Mexico (Rancho Berlin Sandstone and La Quinta Formation), and Puerto Rico, Miocene of France, Lower Miocene of Mexico (Simojovel, Pueblo Nuevo Reef, Rio Lajas Limestone) and Italy.
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This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 25-Jun-2013 16:35.
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The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo
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