Paraplacocoenia
Beauvais, 1982
Type Species
Placocoenia orbignyana Reuss, 1854: 99; Original Designation Beauvais, 1982: vol. 1, p. 114
Type Specimen: Holotype; unknown; Not Traced; Unknown
Type Locality: Coniacian to Lower Santonian of Austria (Gosau Group at Edelbachgraben).
Classification
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Colonial, massive or knobby, plocoid. Gemmation due to extracalicinal budding. Corallites united by a granulate peritheca. Costosepta radial, granular laterally, compact, in the costal area dissociating into trabecular structures. Septal margins beaded. Peritheca tabulo-columnar. Small trabecular–lamellar columella. Endothecal dissepiments thin and subtabulate, abundant. Wall septoparathecal. Septal microstructure consisting of simple trabeculae forming dark axial lines.
Remarks
In many respects the genus Paraplacocoenia Beauvais resembles the genus Haldonia. However, very granulate peritheca, dissociating into trabecular structures in the costal area and a lamellar columella are present in Paraplacocoenia but not in Haldonia.
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This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 01-Sep-2010 21:15.
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The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo
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