Scleractinia taxon details
Archaeosmiliidae Melnikova, 1975 †
- Genus Alloiteausmilia L. Beauvais, 1986 †
- Genus Archaeosmiliopsis Melnikova, 1975 †
- Genus Icaunhelia Beauvais, 1958 †
- Genus Archaeosmilia Melnikova, 1975 † accepted as Icaunhelia Beauvais, 1958 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Melnikova GK. (1975). Novye rannejurskye predstaviteli Amphiastraeina (Skleraktinii) Yugo-Vostochnogo Pamira. In: Djalilov, M.R. (Ed.), Voprosy Paleontolgii Tajikistana (in Russian). <em>Donish, Dushanbe.</em> pp. 108–118. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Archaeosmiliidae Melnikova, 1975 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1440299 on 2024-09-19
original description
Melnikova GK. (1975). Novye rannejurskye predstaviteli Amphiastraeina (Skleraktinii) Yugo-Vostochnogo Pamira. In: Djalilov, M.R. (Ed.), Voprosy Paleontolgii Tajikistana (in Russian). <em>Donish, Dushanbe.</em> pp. 108–118. [details]
basis of record Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
additional source Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]
additional source Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2021). Lower Jurassic corals from the Pamir Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 30(3): 461-494., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2020.11.001 1871-174X [details]
basis of record Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
additional source Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]
additional source Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2021). Lower Jurassic corals from the Pamir Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 30(3): 461-494., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2020.11.001 1871-174X [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Solitary and phaceloid; increase by lateral budding; septa non-exsert, compact, thick, wedge-like, ordered radially, smooth; midseptal zone straight, thick layers of lateral septal stereome continuing into the wall and endotheca; endotheca built of rare, tabuloid, concave elements; wall septo – epithecal, thickened by stereomal lining prolonging from the septa. [details]
