Placocoenia
Orbigny, 1849
Type Species
Astrea macrophthalma Goldfuss, 1826: 70; Monotypy Goldfuss, 1826: 70
Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Verified; Unknown
Type Locality: Maastrichtian of The Netherlands.
The holotype of the type species is housed at IPB (Bonn) under no. 236, Goldfuss collection.
Classification
Diagnosis
Colonial, massive, plocoid. Gemmation due to extracalicinal budding. Corallites subcylindrical, united by a perithecal wall. Costosepta compact, arranged radially or bilaterally. Septal margins beaded. Columella lamellar. Endothecal dissepiments vesicular to subhorizontal. Wall septoparathecal.
Distribution
- Southern Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe; Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous
- East Asia; Early Cretaceous
- Central Asia; Late Cretaceous
- South Asia; Late Cretaceous
This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 03-Sep-2010 17:43.
Page authors are: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo
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