Neocoeniopsis
Alloiteau, 1957, p. 127
Type Species
Phyllocoenia excelsa de Fromentel, 1884: 550, pl. 152, fig. 2, pl. 154, fig. 1.; Original Designation Alloiteau, 1957: 127
Type Specimen: Syntype; ; Verified; Unknown
Type Locality: Lower Santonian of France (Le Beausset, Var).
The syntypes of the type species are housed at MNHN (Paris) under M03760, M03769, M03773, A29626.
Classification
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Colonial, massive, plocoid, subcerioid, submeandroid. Budding extracalicular and intracalicular. Corallites circular or subpolygonal in outline, or arranged in short, submeandroid series. Costosepta compact, nonconfluent to confluent; laterally covered by small (generally less than 50 µm) rounded granulae and carinae-like spines. Paliform lobes present or absent. Columella spongy-papillose or irregularly trabecular. Synapticulae present throughout the corallum. Endothecal dissepiments thin, vesicular to subtabular. Wall parasynapticulothecal, septothecal in places, pores present occasionally.
Remarks
Material assigned to Heliastraea sp. in DIETRICH, 1926, p. 73, from the Aptian of Tanzania is included here.
Distribution
- Southern Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe; Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous
- Subsaharan Africa; Early Cretaceous
This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 14-Jul-2017 21:40.
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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