Published December 20, 2023 | Version v1
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Agariciidae Gray 1847

  • 1. Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Blvd. Luis Donaldo Colosio S / N y Madrid, 83250 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
  • 2. SNSB – Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie and GeobioCenterLMU, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, D- 80333 München, Germany
  • 3. Naturkunde- und Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf, Auenstraße 2, D- 83313 Siegsdorf, Germany

Description

Superfamily Agaricioidea Gray, 1847

Description.

In the Cretaceous only solitary corals. Septa compact, mostly in a subregular radial symmetry. Septa in places connected to each other. Lateral faces with thorns, upper margin smooth. Microstructure of septa of small trabeculae. Lonsdaleoid and main septa absent. Synapticulae present, mainly in the wall. Pali absent, columella by septal fusion. Endotheca generally made of thin tabulae. Wall compact, mainly septothecal with synapticulae. Marginarium absent. Coenosteum generally present, consists of costae. Budding intracalicinal.

Family Agariciidae Gray, 1847

Notes

Published as part of Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, pp. 89-147 in Zitteliana 97 on pages 89-147, DOI: 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Scleractinia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Taxon rank
superFamily
Taxonomic concept label
Agaricioidea Gray, 1847 sec. Löser, Werner & Darga, 2023

References

  • Gray JE (1847) An outline of an arrangement of the stony corals. Annals and Magazine of natural History 19: 120 - 128. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 037454809496460