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Scleractinia taxon detailsPlacosmilia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
 1289786 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1289786)
accepted
Genus
Fhragmosgyra Reig Oriol, 1994 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Placosmiliopsis Beauvais, 1982 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
fossil only
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Observations sur les Polypiers de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes Rendus de l'Académie Des Sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 465–470. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Placosmilia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1289786 on 2025-06-09
Date action by
original description
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Observations sur les Polypiers de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes Rendus de l'Académie Des Sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 465–470. [details]
original description (of Fhragmosgyra Reig Oriol, 1994 †) Reig Oriol JM. (1994). Madreporarios Cretácicos de Cataluña. <em>. Privately published, Barcelona.</em> 60 pp. [details] additional source Gregory JW. (1900). The Jurassic fauna of Cutch. The corals. <em>Palaeontologica Indica, Ser 9.</em> 2 (2): 1-195, pls. 2-27. [details] additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details] additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details] additional source Oppenheim P. (1930). Die Anthozoen der Gosauschichten in der Ostalpen. <em>Oppenheim, Berlin-Lichterfelde.</em> i-xviii, 1-576. [details] additional source Leloux J. (2004). Notes on taxonomy and taphonomy of two Upper Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) scleractinian corals from Limburg, The Netherlands. <em>Scripta Geologica.</em> 127: 313-339. [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Colonial. Younger specimens flabellate, becoming meandroid in later ontogenetical stages. Gemmation intracalicinal, resulting in a single meandroid calicinal series. Costosepta compact, arranged bilaterally. Septal margins granular. Endothecal dissepiments well-developed, occurring throughout the whole corallum. Columella lamellar, generally continuous. Wall parathecal to septoparathecal. Multilamellar epithecal wall can be present. [details]
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