Scleractinia taxon details
Pachynefocoenia Reig Oriol, 1989 †
1510908 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1510908)
accepted
Genus
Pachynefocoenia danieli Reig Oriol, 1989 † (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Reig Oriol JM. (1989). Sobre varios géneros y especies de escleractinias fósiles del Cretácico Catalán. <em>Barcelona.</em> 69 pp. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Pachynefocoenia Reig Oriol, 1989 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1510908 on 2025-06-04
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Reig Oriol JM. (1989). Sobre varios géneros y especies de escleractinias fósiles del Cretácico Catalán. <em>Barcelona.</em> 69 pp. [details]
basis of record Löser H. (2012). Revision of the family Hemiporitidae (Scleractinia, Late Cretaceous). <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 34(2): 399-407., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/g2012n2a8 [details]
basis of record Löser H. (2012). Revision of the family Hemiporitidae (Scleractinia, Late Cretaceous). <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 34(2): 399-407., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/g2012n2a8 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Remark According to Reig Oriol (1989, p. 8), the genus Pachynefocoenia is a plocoid colony that has compact costosepta in both radial and bilateral arrangement; septothecal and synapticulothecal walls; extracalicinal budding; twisted columella; tabulate exotheca. However, the images and figures of the type specimen cleary show a colony that is massive but also has polyps that are in subfasciculate (no lateral connection between some of the corallites), plocoid or subplocoid integration. In addition to extracalicinal budding, the presence of intracalicinal multiplication, that leads to a submeandroid polyp integration type, can be observed. Moreover, the skeletal structures that, according to Reig Oriol, are supposed to show synapticulothecal developments, rather indicate septothecal to septoparathecal walls, thus very closely corresponding to Barysmilia. Therefore, their synonmy is suggested. [details]
