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Kobyphyllia

Baron-Szabo, 1997

Kobyphyllia Baron-Szabo, 1997 is a replacement taxon for Plesiophyllia Koby, 1884, p. 157.

Type Species

Plesiophyllia recta Koby, 1884; Subsequent Designation Baron-Szabo, in Baron-Szabo and Fernandez-Mendiola, 1997

Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Not Traced; Unknown

Type Locality: Upper Jurassic of Switzerland.

Classification

Synonyms

Diagnosis

Solitary, cuneiform or turbinate, fixed. Costosepta compact, exsert, granulate. Axial ends of septa cuneiform to rhopaloid. Microstructural mid-septal line is straight, irregularly wavy, or zig-zag. Columella lamellar. Wall septothecal and parathecal. Endothecal dissepiments generally large vesicular. Epitheca present.

Distribution

  • Central Europe; Late Jurassic - Late Cretaceous
  • Southern Europe; Early Cretaceous

This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36

This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 05-Nov-2016 16:55.

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


Kobyphyllia acrisoniae (Felix, 1903), holotype
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