Ellipsocoenia
Orbigny, 1850, vol. 2, p. 92
Type Species
Ellipsocoenia regularis d’Orbigny, 1850: 92; Original Designation d’Orbigny, 1850: 92
Type Specimen: Syntype; Cn 47518 and 47523-24; Verified; Unknown
Type locality: Hauterivian of France (Fontenoy).
Classification
Diagnosis
Colonial, massive, plocoid. Gemmation intracalicinal. Calices circular or elliptical in outline, monocentric. Costosepta subcompact with large pores, nonconfluent. Columella trabecular, spongy-papillose. Wall synapticulothecal. Endothecal and exothecal dissepiments numerous.
Remarks
Wells (1956) stated that the genus Ellipsocoenia represented a younger synonym of the genus Favia Oken. However, due to fundamental differences in e.g. the septal development (faviid septa in Favia; fungiid septa in Ellipsocoenia) the two taxa should be grouped in different suborders.
Distribution
- Southern Europe, Central Europe; Late Jurassic - Late Cretaceous
- Eastern Europe; Early Cretaceous
- East Asia; Early Cretaceous
Jurassic: France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Switzerland; Cretaceous: Switzerland, France, Crimea, Georgia (Caucasus), Tibet, Poland, Romania, Spain, Greece, England (Haldon Hill), The Netherlands, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, eastern Serbia; Tertiary: Austrtia, Italy, Spain.This page has been in preparation since 18-Jun-2010 19:09
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 14-Sep-2010 21:29.
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The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo
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