Scleractinia taxon details
Cairnsipsammia Baron-Szabo, 2015 †
1439896 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439896)
accepted
Genus
Cairnsipsammia merbeleri Baron-Szabo, 2015 † (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Baron-Szabo RC. (2015). A new dendrophylliid coral genus Cairnsipsammia from the Lower Cretaceous of western Austria (Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Vorarlberg; Schrattenkalk Formation [upper Barremian-lower Aptian]). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 128 (4): 216-226., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x-128.4.216 [details]
Status The holotype of the type species is housed at the Walsermuseum Riezlern (Vorarlberg, Austria) under wamu-464 (Merbeler coll.).
Status The holotype of the type species is housed at the Walsermuseum Riezlern (Vorarlberg, Austria) under wamu-464 (Merbeler coll.). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Cairnsipsammia Baron-Szabo, 2015 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439896 on 2025-09-10
Date
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original description
Baron-Szabo RC. (2015). A new dendrophylliid coral genus Cairnsipsammia from the Lower Cretaceous of western Austria (Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Vorarlberg; Schrattenkalk Formation [upper Barremian-lower Aptian]). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 128 (4): 216-226., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x-128.4.216 [details]
additional source Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> 119: 1-33. [details] Available for editors
additional source Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> 119: 1-33. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Corallum colonial, massive, plocoid to submeandroid. Corallites mainly monocentric, occasionally di- and polycentric, irregularly distributed over the colony or arranged in wavy ramified or non-ramified series. Corallite centers distinct or subdistinct. Budding mainly intracalicular, occasionally extracalicular. Costosepta compact or porous, confluent to non-confluent. They are nearly smooth or covered by small (up to 50 µm) spiniform and rounded granules laterally, and are moniliform or irregularly granulated marginally. POURTALÈS plan present. Columella well developed or nearly absent; when present spongy-papillose or made of twisted and elongate segments that are arranged in a lamellar fashion. Columella discrete or connected to trabecular extensions of some axial edges of septa. Pali present or absent. Endothecal dissepiments thin, vesicular to subtabular, rather abundant. Intercorallite coenosteum absent or narrow (up to 2 mm wide), porous, reticulate with granular surfaces, costate. Wall synapticulothecal to synapticuloparathecal, porous. Secondary septothecal thickenings present or absent. [details]Status The holotype of the type species is housed at the Walsermuseum Riezlern (Vorarlberg, Austria) under wamu-464 (Merbeler coll.). [details]
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