Reussicoenia
Beauvais, 1982, vol. 1, p. 138
Type Species
Ulastrea edwardsi Reuss, 1854: 115, pl. 16, figs. 1-3.; Original Designation Beauvais, 1982: vol. 1, p. 138
Type Specimen: Holotype; unknown; Not Traced; Unknown
Type Locality: Upper Turonian to Campanian of Austria (Gosau Group).
The holotype of the type species is housed at the Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum Linz, Austria, under 21/1990, Reuss collection.
Classification
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Colonial, massive, plocoid. Gemmation generally extracalicinal. Costosepta compact, nonconfluent, arranged radially and bilaterally, spinose laterally, moniliform marginally. Columella spongy-papillose or formed by twisted segments, absent in some corallites. Synapticulae absent. Auriculae sparse or absent. Perithecal dissepiments sparse. Endothecal dissepiments vesicular, forming a stereozone. Wall parathecal-septoparathecal, thick.
Remarks
Originally, the genus Reussicoenia was placed in the Placocoeniidae. Re-investigation of the type material by Baron-Szabo (2010) revealed, however, that it showed close affinities to the Agatheliidae. Based on the presence of: compact septa that have numerous spiniform granulae laterally and are beaded marginally; granulated peritheca formed by (incomplete) concentric lamellae; ; plocoid polyp integration; septothecal developments that often consist of stunted septa; the genus Reussicoenia is here transferred to the Agatheliidae.
Distribution
- Southern Europe; Late Cretaceous
- Central Europe; Late Cretaceous
- East Asia; Late Cretaceous
Creatceous: Austria (Gosau Group), Croatia, eastern Serbia, Tibet (Gamba and Yadong), ?Spain, Jamaica; Tertiary: Somalia (lower part of Auradu Limestone).This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 11-Nov-2010 14:11.
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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