Scleractinia taxon details

Thecoseris de Fromentel & de Ferry, 1869 †

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Original illustration of "Thecoseris patellata"

1511690  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1511690)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Procyclolitidae † (Family)
  8. Thecoseris † (Genus)
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Fromentel E de, Ferry H de. (1865). Zoophytes, terrains jurassiques. Paléontologie française. 1865a : p. 1–48, pl. 1–12; 1865b : p. 49–96, pl. 13–24; 1866 : p. 97–144, pl. 25–36; 1867 : p. 145–192, pl. 37–48; 1869 : p. 193–240, pl. 49–60. [details] 
Description Solitary corallum. Thick folded epitheca. Corallite subcircular in outline. Rounded central fossa sometimes filled by inner...  
Description Solitary corallum. Thick folded epitheca. Corallite subcircular in outline. Rounded central fossa sometimes filled by inner edges of septa. Radial elements are thin, numerous, often anastomosed, never exsert, slightly sinuous, subequal in thickness and finely denticulate. synapticulae present (from Fromentel’s figure of 1869 and text of 1870). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Thecoseris de Fromentel & de Ferry, 1869 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1511690 on 2025-05-13
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original description Fromentel E de, Ferry H de. (1865). Zoophytes, terrains jurassiques. Paléontologie française. 1865a : p. 1–48, pl. 1–12; 1865b : p. 49–96, pl. 13–24; 1866 : p. 97–144, pl. 25–36; 1867 : p. 145–192, pl. 37–48; 1869 : p. 193–240, pl. 49–60. [details] 
 
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Description Solitary corallum. Thick folded epitheca. Corallite subcircular in outline. Rounded central fossa sometimes filled by inner edges of septa. Radial elements are thin, numerous, often anastomosed, never exsert, slightly sinuous, subequal in thickness and finely denticulate. synapticulae present (from Fromentel’s figure of 1869 and text of 1870). [details]

Remark Thecoseris is a conceptual badly known genus. No type and even no specimen of the Liassic type-species is presently available. Koby 1887 placed Thecoseris in the Microsolenidae and then it is difficult to make a difference with Trocharaea. Vaughan and Wells 1943 and then Wells 1956 placed it in the Procyclolitidae but we don’t know on what specimen the assignation is based. Despite the absence of initial written description the genus was successful. 17 Jurassic (Lathuilière 1989) and 5 Cretaceous (Löser 2000) nominal species. Most of these species were never cited more than one time. [details]
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