Scleractinia taxon details
Cardiastraea L. Beauvais, 1978 †
1438331 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1438331)
accepted
Genus
Cardiastraea cristata L. Beauvais, 1978 † (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Beauvais, L. (1978). Un nouveau genre de Madreporaires ahermatypiques et un nouveau mode de bourgeonnement: Cardiastraea cristata nov. gen., nov. sp. du Lias du Maroc. Geobios, 11, 1: 85-89., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-6995(78)80020-5 [details]
Description Small discoid more or less heart-shaped colony. Lower surface covered by a folded epithecas.l. of endothecal origin. Few...
Description Small discoid more or less heart-shaped colony. Lower surface covered by a folded epithecas.l. of endothecal origin. Few corallites are arranged around a radial prominent crest corresponding to a progenitor septum. Radial elements are compact, often free costo-septa straight or slightly curved. Distal edge variable, subinerm, or finely granulated, or festooned or with strong subacute teeth. These subacute teeth are always present at the inner edge. Lateral faces are ornamented of vertical carinae opposed or alternating on both sides of the radial element. Synapticules absent. Columella absent or weak and parietal. No wall between the corallites except on the crest(s). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Cardiastraea L. Beauvais, 1978 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1438331 on 2024-05-10
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original description
Beauvais, L. (1978). Un nouveau genre de Madreporaires ahermatypiques et un nouveau mode de bourgeonnement: Cardiastraea cristata nov. gen., nov. sp. du Lias du Maroc. Geobios, 11, 1: 85-89., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-6995(78)80020-5 [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source Beauvais L. (1986). Monographie des madréporaires du Jurassique inférieur du Maroc. <em>Palaeontographica (A).</em> 194 (1/3): 1–68. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source Beauvais L. (1986). Monographie des madréporaires du Jurassique inférieur du Maroc. <em>Palaeontographica (A).</em> 194 (1/3): 1–68. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Description Small discoid more or less heart-shaped colony. Lower surface covered by a folded epithecas.l. of endothecal origin. Few corallites are arranged around a radial prominent crest corresponding to a progenitor septum. Radial elements are compact, often free costo-septa straight or slightly curved. Distal edge variable, subinerm, or finely granulated, or festooned or with strong subacute teeth. These subacute teeth are always present at the inner edge. Lateral faces are ornamented of vertical carinae opposed or alternating on both sides of the radial element. Synapticules absent. Columella absent or weak and parietal. No wall between the corallites except on the crest(s). [details]Remark L. Beauvais proposed an assignation to Stylophyllidae (Beauvais 1978) then to "Distichophyllidae"= Reimaniphyllidae in Beauvais (1986), but no thin section is provided and a comparison to Montlivaltids morphogenera like Amblophyllia or Coenotheca is to be done. [details]
