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Scleractinia taxon details

Pleurostylina de Fromentel, 1861 †

1440288  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1440288)

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Pleurostylina corallina Fromentel, 1861 † (type by subsequent designation)
Metaulastraea Dietrich, 1926 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Fromentel, E. de. (1861). Introduction a l'etude des polypiers fossiles. <em>Memoires de la Societe d 'Emulation du Departement du Doubs.</em> 1-157. [details] 
Description Massive cerioid corallum with polygonal corallites. Increase by Taschenknospung possible but not well demonstrated. Radial...  
Description Massive cerioid corallum with polygonal corallites. Increase by Taschenknospung possible but not well demonstrated. Radial elements compact, free, attenuated curved to sinuous. Distal edge, inner edge and lateral faces smooth. No pali. Bilateral symmetry strongly marked by the columellar septum and the curvature of septa. Two zoned endotheca with large vesicles in the marginarium and tabuloid dissepiments or tabulae in the inner part of calices. No columella, no synapticulae, pachythecal wall with a characteristic dark line in the middle. [details]

Status nomen nudum, the name is available only in Fromentel 1861, p. 201  
Status nomen nudum, the name is available only in Fromentel 1861, p. 201 [details]

Status Probably a junior synonym of Amphiastrea  
Status Probably a junior synonym of Amphiastrea [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Pleurostylina de Fromentel, 1861 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1440288 on 2025-05-26
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2020-06-06 09:13:42Z
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2021-06-23 07:54:25Z
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original description Fromentel, E. de. (1861). Introduction a l'etude des polypiers fossiles. <em>Memoires de la Societe d 'Emulation du Departement du Doubs.</em> 1-157. [details] 

original description (of Metaulastraea Dietrich, 1926 †) Dietrich WO. (1926). Steinkorallen des Malms und der Unterkreide im südlichen Deutsch-Ostafrika. <em>Palaeontographica.</em> (Suppl.7) 1: 43-101. [details] 

basis of record Baron-Szabo R, González-León C. (1999). Lower Cretaceous corals and stratigraphy of the Bisbee Group (Cerro de Oro and Lampazos areas), Sonora, Mexico. <em>Cretaceous Research.</em> 20 (4): 465-497., available online at https://doi.org/10.1006/cres.1999.0159 [details] 

additional source Eliášová H. (1975). Sous-ordre Amphiastraeina Alloiteau, 1952 (Hexacorallia) des calcaires de Štramberk (Tithonien, Tchécoslovaquie). <em>Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii.</em> 20(1): 1-23, pls. 1-12. [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] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Comparison See Amphiastrea , Amphiaulastrea and Thecidiosmilia [details]

Description Massive cerioid corallum with polygonal corallites. Increase by Taschenknospung possible but not well demonstrated. Radial elements compact, free, attenuated curved to sinuous. Distal edge, inner edge and lateral faces smooth. No pali. Bilateral symmetry strongly marked by the columellar septum and the curvature of septa. Two zoned endotheca with large vesicles in the marginarium and tabuloid dissepiments or tabulae in the inner part of calices. No columella, no synapticulae, pachythecal wall with a characteristic dark line in the middle. [details]

Remark Two Jurassic and two Cretaceous nominal species. See Eliasova 1975, p. 9 pl. 3 fig. 1-2 text.fig. 3 for a description of the type-species. [details]

Status nomen nudum, the name is available only in Fromentel 1861, p. 201 [details]

Status Probably a junior synonym of Amphiastrea [details]
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