Valliculastraea
Alloiteau, 1957, p. 322
Type Species
Valliculastraea jauberti Alloiteau, 1957: 322; Original Designation Alloiteau, 1957: 322
Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Verified; Unknown
Type Locality: Upper Turonian of France (Uchaux, Vaucluse).
The holotype of the type species is housed at MNHN (Paris) under R10968.
Classification
Diagnosis
Colonial, massive, thamnasterioid to submeandroid. Gemmation intracalicinal. Corallites isolated or arranged in short meandroid series, separated by tholiform collines. Septa generally biseptal, confluent, subcompact, perforations mainly restricted to their axial ends. Septal flanks granular and pennular. Columella papillose to irregularly parietal. Endothecal dissepiments thin, vesicular to subtabulate, abundant. Synapticulae present. No wall between corallites or series.
Distribution
- Southern Europe; Late Cretaceous
- Central Europe; Late Cretaceous
- Central Europe; Late Cretaceous
- Eastern Europe; Late Cretaceous
- Eastern Europe; Late Cretaceous
This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 07-Apr-2013 22:29.
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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