Published December 20, 2023 | Version v1
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Synastreidae d'Achiardi 1875

  • 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 Eugyroidea d’Achiardi, 1875

Description.

Colonial (cerioid, flabelloid, hydnophoroid, meandroid, phaceloid, plocoid) corals. Septa compact. Septal symmetry regular and in various systems, in size orders or irregular. Septa poorly ornamented. Septal microstructure of small trabeculae. Lonsdaleoid septa only in the Felixigyrids; main septa absent. Synapticulae and pali absent. Columella rare. Endotheca well-developed, generally as dense, thick and regular tabulae. Marginarium absent. Wall compact and tabulothecal or septothecal by thickening of septa. Coenosteum and budding varies.

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

Scientific name authorship
d'Achiardi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Scleractinia
Taxon rank
superFamily
Taxonomic concept label
Eugyroidea d'Achiardi, 1875 sec. Löser, Werner & Darga, 2023

References

  • Alloiteau J (1952) Madreporaires post-paleozoiques. In: Piveteau J (Ed.) Traite de Paleontologie (1), Paris, Masson, 539 - 684.
  • Beauvais M (1982) Revision Systematique des Madreporaires des couches de Gosau. Paris, Comptoir geologique, 5 vols.
  • Fromentel E de (1877) Zoophytes, terrain cretace (10). Paleontologie francaise (A. d'Orbigny ed.) 8: 433 - 480.
  • Oppenheim LP (1930) Die Anthozoen der Gosauschichten in den Ostalpen. Berlin, privately published, 1 - 604.