Fungiastraea
Alloiteau, 1952, p. 661
Type Species
Fungiastraea laganum Alloiteau, 1952, p. 661; Original Designation Alloiteau, 1952, p. 661
Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Not Traced; Unknown
Type Locality: Upper Turonian of France (Uchaux, Vaucluse).
Classification
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Colonial, massive, thamnasterioid to submeandroid. Budding intracalicular, occasionally extracalicular. Calicinal centers distinct. Septa compact to subcompact, confluent, moderately granulated laterally; pennulae-like structures present. Columella spongy-papillose. Endothecal dissepiments thin, vesicular to subtabulate. No wall between corallites.
Distribution
- Western Europe, Southern Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe; Late Jurassic - Late Cretaceous
- Subsaharan Africa; Early Cretaceous
- North Africa; Late Cretaceous
- East Asia; Late Cretaceous
- Australasia; Late Cretaceous
This page has been in preparation since 08-Jul-2010 18:35
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 09-Mar-2016 14:29.
Page authors are: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo
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