Eohydnophora

Yabe and Eguchi, 1936, p. 142

Eohydnophora Yabe and Eguchi, 1936, p. 142 is a junior synonym (available and invalid), see Felixigyra Prever, 1909, p. 118.

Type Species

Eohydnophora tosaensis Yabe and Eguchi, 1936: 142.; Original Designation Yabe and Eguchi, 1936: 142.

Type Specimen: Holotype; TUM 59344; Verified; Unknown

Type Locality: Albian to Lower Cenomanian of Japan.

Diagnosis

Colonial, massive, hydnophoroid. Gemmation intracalicinal. Calices in series, bounded by thin discontinuous wall forming short collines. Costosepta compact, sparsely granulated laterally. Columella parietal or absent, if present formed by inner prolongation of septa, arranged parallel to walls. Endothecal dissepiments well-developed, tabulate. Wall septothecal.

Remarks

Like Eugyra but calicinal series reduced to short meandroid-hydnophoroid to hydnophoroid structures.

Distribution

• Southern Europe; Late Jurassic - Late Cretaceous
• Central Europe; Early Cretaceous
• Eastern Europe; Early Cretaceous
• East Asia; Early Cretaceous

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The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo