Elephantaria

Oppenheim, 1930

Elephantaria Oppenheim, 1930 is a junior synonym (available and invalid), see Bosnopsammia Oppenheim, 1909, p. 315.

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

• Family: Actinacididae Vaughan and Wells, 1943

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

Also see discussion in Baron-Szabo (2014a, p. 53).

Distribution

• Central Europe; Late Cretaceous
• Caribbean; Late Cretaceous
• Southern Europe; Paleocene - Oligocene

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This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 06-Jan-2015 21:12.

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The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo