Multicolumastraea
Vaughan, 1899, p. 236
Multicolumastraea Vaughan, 1899, p. 236 is a junior synonym (available and invalid), see Columastrea Orbigny, 1849, p. 9.
Type Species
Heliastraea cyathiformis Duncan, in Duncan and Wall, 1865: 7; Subsequent Designation Vaughan, 1899: 236
Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Verified; Unknown
Type Locality: Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica (Trout Hall, larenden)
The holotype of the type species is housed at MNH (London) under R. 28938.
Classification
Diagnosis
Colonial, massive, columnar, lamellar, plocoid. Gemmation extracalicinal. Costosepta compact. Septal margins regularly dentate. Costae rarely extend over the coenosteum. Columella formed by 3 or 4 pillars. Pali in front of first and second septal cycles. Wall septothecal. Endotheca well-developed, consisting of fine and densely packed dissepiments. Perithecal wall vesicular. Pseudo-auriculae present before septal cycles younger than S2 or absent.
Remarks
For further information on the genus see discussion in Baron-Szabo (2014a, p. 39).
Distribution
- Caribbean; Late Cretaceous - Eocene
- Southern Europe; Late Cretaceous
- East Asia; Late Cretaceous
This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 06-Jan-2015 21:40.
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The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo
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