Meandrina
Lamarck, 1801, p.372
Meandrina Lamarck, 1801, p.372 is a replacement taxon for Thecophyllia Dainelli, 1915.
Type Species
Madrepora maeandrites Ellis and Solander, 1786, p. 161, pl. 48, fig. 1; Original Designation Lamarck, 1801, p.372
Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Lost; Unknown
Type Locality: unknown (Recent)
Madrepora maeandrites was originally described by Linnaeus, 1758, p. 794 ("Habitat in O. Americano"); the type specimen is lost. See discussion in Vaughan (1901), p.14.
Synonyms
- Ctenophyllia Dana, 1846, p.169
- Goreaugyra Wells, 1974, p.929
- Maeandra Oken, 1815, p.70
- Placocyathus Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848, p. 327
- Sphenophyllia Moseley, 1881, p.182
- Thecophyllia Dainelli, 1915
Distribution
- North Africa; Paleocene
- South Asia; Paleocene
- Central America; Eocene
- Caribbean; Eocene
- West Asia; Eocene
- North Africa; Oligocene
- Subsaharan Africa; Oligocene
- Central America; Oligocene
- Caribbean; Oligocene
- West Asia; Oligocene
- Southeast Asia; Miocene - Pliocene
- Southern Europe; Miocene
- East Asia; Miocene
- Caribbean; Miocene
- Southeast Asia; Miocene
- North America, Central America, Caribbean; Pliocene - Pleistocene
- East Asia; Pliocene
- North America; Pliocene
- Central America; Pliocene
- Caribbean; Pliocene
- Southeast Asia; Pliocene
- East Asia; Pleistocene - Holocene
- Australasia; Pleistocene
- Melanesia; Pleistocene
- North America; Pleistocene
- Central America; Pleistocene
- Caribbean; Pleistocene
- South America; Pleistocene
- Western Atlantic; Recent
- North America; Holocene
- Caribbean; Holocene
Historical distribution: Eocene? Recent., Europe-West Indies-Brazil (Wells, 1956). Source: Paleobiology database (accessed 5/30/12), Veron (2000). Distribution compiled by Matthew Tibbits.This page has been in preparation since 28-Mar-2010 23:41
This version was contributed by Ann Budd on 13-Jun-2012 21:52.
Page authors are: Ann Budd. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Ann Budd
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