Scleractinia taxon details
Wadeopsammia Wells, 1933 †
1439908 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439908)
accepted
Genus
Trochosmilia nodosa Wade, 1926 † accepted as Wadeopsammia nodosa (Wade, 1926) † (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Wells JW. (1933). Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology,.</em> 18 (67): 85–292. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Wadeopsammia Wells, 1933 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439908 on 2025-09-10
Date
action
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original description
Wells JW. (1933). Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology,.</em> 18 (67): 85–292. [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
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Comparison Differs from Heteropsammia by having granular costae and a solid columella. [details]Diagnosis Corallum solitary, free, and trochoid; costae coarsely granular; epitheca absent; Pourtalès plan present; columella solid. [details]
Remark This genus and family were monographed by Cairns (2001), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. Genus monotypic. [details]
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