Scleractinia name details
Archaeosmilia Melnikova, 1975 †
1440300 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1440300)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
- Species Archaeosmilia subrecta L. Beauvais, 1986 †
- Species Archaeosmilia beata Melnikova, 1975 † accepted as Icaunhelia beata (Melnikova, 1975) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Archaeosmilia brevis (Melnikova, 1989) † accepted as Icaunhelia brevis (Melnikova, 1989) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Archaeosmilia duncani Melnikova, 1975 † accepted as Icaunhelia duncani (Melnikova, 1975) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Archaeosmilia menchikoffi L. Beauvais, 1986 † accepted as Icaunhelia menchikoffi (L. Beauvais, 1986) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Melnikova GK. (1975). Novye rannejurskye predstaviteli Amphiastraeina (Skleraktinii) Yugo-Vostochnogo Pamira. In: Djalilov, M.R. (Ed.), Voprosy Paleontolgii Tajikistana (in Russian). <em>Donish, Dushanbe.</em> pp. 108–118. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Archaeosmilia Melnikova, 1975 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1440300 on 2025-05-13
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Melnikova GK. (1975). Novye rannejurskye predstaviteli Amphiastraeina (Skleraktinii) Yugo-Vostochnogo Pamira. In: Djalilov, M.R. (Ed.), Voprosy Paleontolgii Tajikistana (in Russian). <em>Donish, Dushanbe.</em> pp. 108–118. [details]
basis of record Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
additional source Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
additional source Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2021). Lower Jurassic corals from the Pamir Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 30(3): 461-494., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2020.11.001 1871-174X [details]
source of synonymy Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]
basis of record Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
additional source Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
additional source Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2021). Lower Jurassic corals from the Pamir Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 30(3): 461-494., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2020.11.001 1871-174X [details]
source of synonymy Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Comparison In the corallite structure, the genus is similar to phaceloid Archaeosmiliopsis Melnikova, 1975. In its shape and wedge like septa, the genus Archaeosmiliopsis is similar to Mesophyllum Hahn, 1911 from the middle part of the Lower Jurassic, Kramsach Limestone, in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Hahn 1911), and to solitary corals from the Domerian and Carixian of the Bakonyi Mountains, Hungary (Dulai 1995) which were described under diverse generic names (Trochocyathus, Ceratocoenia, Montlivaltia? and Caryophyllia?). Genus Archaeosmilia differs from all of them in having endotheca, while the enumerated corals do not show any traces of the endothecal structure. [details]Diagnosis Solitary, conical; calice deep; epitheca thick. Septa wedge like, thick, non-exsert, smooth, differentiated into four size orders; symmetry six-folded. The S1 septa are the thickest and long, the S2 septa thinner and shorter, the S3 septa about half of the length of the longest septa, the S4 septa short and irregularly distributed. Endotheca well developed, made of tabuloid dissepiments with addition of large vesiculae. Microstructure preserved in traces, as a straight mid-septal line. [details]
Remark Two species described by Melnikova 1975 are known from the Hettangian-Sinemurian? of Central Asia, from Tadjikistan and Afghanistan, and other two to four species from the Early Jurassic of Morocco described from the Sinemurian and Domerian by Beauvais 1986. [details]