Preverastraea
Beauvais, 1976
Type Species
Aulastraeopora chelussi Prever, 1909: 140; Original Designation Beauvais, 1976: 24
Type Specimen: Holotype; USNM I-74489; Verified; Unknown
Type locality: Aptian of Italy.
Classification
Diagnosis
Colonial, cerioid. Gemmation generally extracalicinal. Corallite lumen is separated from the wall by a dissepimentarium. Septa compact, bilaterally arranged, thin in the lumen, becoming thicker in the peripheral region. Lonsdaleoid septa present. Columella absent. Endothecal dissepiments large, vesicular in the outer region of the corallite.
Distribution
- Southern Europe; Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous
- Central America; Early Cretaceous
- Central Europe; Late Cretaceous
- Eastern Europe; Late Cretaceous
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This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 06-Sep-2010 22:16.
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The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo
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