Scleractinia taxon details
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]
basis of record
Beauvais L. (1964). Ėtude stratigraphique et paléontologique des formations à madréporaires du Jurassique supérieur du Jura et de l'Est du Bassin de Paris. <em>Mémoires de la Société de géologique de France.</em> 43 (100): 1–287, pls. 1-38. [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]
From editor or global species database
Description Solitary corallum cemented by a wide attachment area. Calicular outline slightly elliptical. infundibuliform calicular platform. Epitheca s.l. with growth bands (around 2,75 mm vertical growth/year on the type material). Radial elements are compact septa or more probably costosepta with a very short costal part. Most of them are free. Major septa reach the parietal columella. Lateral faces smooth. Distal edge smooth. Inner edge smooth or ornamented of regular long teeth. Larger septa curved, smaller generally straight attenuated and less projected. The curvature is organised with regards to the bilateral symmetry also marked by the elongation of the parietal columella. No thick septa in dorso-ventral plan. Microstructure not observed. Endotheca not observed. No synapticules. Septotheca or paraseptotheca. [details]
Remark 43 jurassic and 16 cretaceous nominal species were described but they need a revision in order to get a reliable distribution. [details]
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