Scleractinia taxon details
Tiarasmilia Wells, 1932 †
1348170 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1348170)
accepted
Genus
Tiarasmilia casteri Wells, 1932 † (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Wells JW. (1932). Corals of the Trinity Group of the Comanchean of Central Texas. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 6 (3): 225-256. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Tiarasmilia Wells, 1932 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1348170 on 2025-05-13
original description
Wells JW. (1932). Corals of the Trinity Group of the Comanchean of Central Texas. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 6 (3): 225-256. [details]
additional source Ogbe FGA. (1976). Some Paleocene corals from Ewekoro Southwestern Nigeria. <em>Journal of Mining and Geology.</em> 13(2): 1-5, pl. 1. [details]
additional source Ogbe FGA. (1976). Some Paleocene corals from Ewekoro Southwestern Nigeria. <em>Journal of Mining and Geology.</em> 13(2): 1-5, pl. 1. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Comparison Like Stelloria but costae more strongly developed and axial septal ends weaker, terminating into trabecular extensions. In contrast to Wells' original description, in Tiarasmilia dissepiments are not absent but seem to be sparsely present. [details]
