Smilotrochus
Milne Edwards and Haime, 1851, p. 58
Type Species
Trochosmilia tuberosa Milne Edwards and Haime, 1850: 58; Original Designation Milne Edwards and Haime, 1851: 29
Type Specimen: Holotype; NHMUK R48420; Verified; Unknown
Type Locality: Upper Albian of England, UK (Blackdown, Devonshire).
Classification
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Solitary, trochoid or subturbinate, fixed. Costosepta compact, coarsely granulated laterally. Columella absent but septal axial ends may fuse and form a pseudocolumella. Wall parathecal or septothecal. Endothecal dissepiments developed, but deep in corallum.
Distribution
- Central Europe, Eastern Europe, North America; Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous
- Western Europe; Early Cretaceous
- East Asia; Early Cretaceous
- Southern Europe; Late Cretaceous
- North Africa; 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 10-Sep-2010 19:14.
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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