Scleractinia taxon details
Siderastreites Roniewicz, 2008 †
1438311 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1438311)
accepted
Genus
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Roniewicz E. (2008). Kimmeridgian-Valanginian reef corals from the Moesian platform from Bulgaria. <em>Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae.</em> 78 (2): 91–134. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Siderastreites Roniewicz, 2008 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1438311 on 2025-09-11
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Roniewicz E. (2008). Kimmeridgian-Valanginian reef corals from the Moesian platform from Bulgaria. <em>Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae.</em> 78 (2): 91–134. [details]
basis of record Löser, H. (2016). Early evolution of the family Siderastraeidae (Scleractinia; Cretaceous-extant). <em>Paläontologische Zeitschrift.</em> 90 (1): 1-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-016-0292-x [details]
additional source Ilcheva A, Motchurova-Dekova N. (2011). Catalogue of type collections of Early Cretaceous corals (Scleractinia, Anthozoa) at the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. <em>Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society.</em> 72(1-3): 129-140. [details]
basis of record Löser, H. (2016). Early evolution of the family Siderastraeidae (Scleractinia; Cretaceous-extant). <em>Paläontologische Zeitschrift.</em> 90 (1): 1-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-016-0292-x [details]
additional source Ilcheva A, Motchurova-Dekova N. (2011). Catalogue of type collections of Early Cretaceous corals (Scleractinia, Anthozoa) at the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. <em>Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society.</em> 72(1-3): 129-140. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Comparison The coral was classified into the Siderastreidae, although it differs from other genera of this family in compact septa. In its thin and abundant septa it is similar to Astraraea Felix, assigned to the Haplaraeidae, from which it differs in nonconfluent septa and a cerioid type of colony. In general morphology of thin septa and a cerioid colony, it also is similar to Aptian Plesiothamnasteria Alloiteau which, however, has septa resembling those in Isastrea. [details]Diagnosis Cerioid with temporary short series; increase intacalicular by corallite division; septa compact, thin, non-confluent, anastomosing, septal sides with granules, synapticulae numerous, rod-like; columella parietal; endotheca dissepimental, wall septo-synapticular, zigzag. [details]