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Baron-Szabo, R. in prep., Elephantaria Oppenheim, 1930. In: Cairns, S. D., Baron-Szabo, R., Budd, A.F., Lathuilière, B., Roniewicz, E., Stolarski, J., and Johnson, K.G. (eds.), Corallosphere, world wide web site at http://corallosphere.org/taxon/550, last visited on 10 Feb 2012.
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Elephantaria

Oppenheim, 1930

Type Species

Elephantaria lindstroemi Oppenheim, 1930: 2, pl. 39, figs 6-7; Original Designation Oppenheim, 1930: 2, pl. 39, figs 6-7

Type Specimen: Holotype; unknown; Not Traced; Unknown

Type Locality: Upper Turonian to Campanian of Austria (Gosau Group)

Classification

Diagnosis

Colonial, submassive to lamellar, subthamnasterioid-subplocoid. Gemmation extracalicinal. Corallites embedded in a porous-reticulate coenosteum, connected by irregularly confluent septa. Nonconfluent septa common. Costosepta reduced, subcompact to porous, granulate laterally. Columellar trabeculae and synapticulae present. Endothecal dissepiments thin, vesicular.

Remarks

Based on a single specimen, Oppenheim (1909, p. 315) described the colonial coral Bosnopsammia. Oppenheim stated that it showed eupsammiid characteristics, closely resembling the genera Coenopsammia and Stereopsammia. However, re-investigation by Oppenheim (1912, p. 106) on a larger amount of specimens collected from the type locality during the years after the first description, he revised his original diagnosis of the genus, stating that in well preserved specimens the development of septa, wall, and corallite integration rather indicated that it was a taxon closely related to the genus Actinacis. According to Oppenheim (1912), the genus Bosnopsammia is characterized by corallites embedded in a porous coenosteum with costosepta irregularly connecting them, frequently occurring nonconfluent septa, extracalicinal budding, costosepta having pores and granulated margins, corallite centers filled with trabecular-papillose columella with a more or less distinct development of paliform lobes. Therefore, Bosnopsammia is included as a subgenus of the taxon Elephantaria.

Distribution

  • Central Europe; Late Cretaceous
  • Caribbean; Late Cretaceous
  • Southern Europe; Paleocene - Oligocene
Cretaceous: Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Jamaica; Paleogene: Italy, Bosnia, Slovenia

Contains

This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36

This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 12-Sep-2010 20:26.

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


Elephantaria tottoni Wells, 1935, holotype
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