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Litharaeopsis

Beauvais, 1982, vol. 2, p. 35

Type Species

Litharaea latistellata Felix, 1903a: 180.; Subsequent Designation Beauvais, 1982: vol. 2, p. 35

Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Verified; Unknown

Type Locality: Upper Turonian of Austria (Gosau Group at St. Gilgen).

The holotype of the type species is housed at BSPG (Munich) under 1878/XI/388.

Classification

Synonyms

Diagnosis

Colonial, massive, cerioid. Corallites indistinct. Costosepta short, thick, pennular and granular laterally, nonconfluent to subconfluent, with few irregular perforations. Anastomosis rare. Trabecular lobes thin. Columella large, irregularly papillose. Wall synapticulothecal, incomplete. Endothecal dissepiments subhorizontal.

Distribution

  • Central Europe; Late Cretaceous

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This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 14-Sep-2017 20:36.

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


Litharaeopsis latistellata (Felix, 1903), holotype
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