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Enallhelia

d'Orbigny, 1849: p. 11

Type Species

Lithodendron compressum Münster in Goldfuss 1829: p. 106; Subsequent Designation Milne Edwards and Haime 1850 p.XXI

Type Specimen: Syntype; BSPG AS128, 1886, 1887, 1888; Verified; Dry Preserved

Type Locality: Upper Jurassic, close to Heidenheim

4 syntypes known, the figured specimen is lost.

Classification

Synonyms

Description

Dendroid corallum with cylindrical corallites. Increase typically sympodial, extracalicinal, lateral and more or less regularly alternate. Branches covered by granulations of a trabecular peritheca. Radial elements are compact costosepta. Major septa may anastomose to the columella. Minor septa free. Distal edge not ornamented, inner edge with auriculae, lateral faces with some acute granules, no palis. Clear radial symmetry (not hexameral in every species). Bilateral symmetry sometimes present. Columella styliform, synapticulae absent, wall of unknown nature (by analogy a wall similar to Heliocoenia is expected).

Remarks

24 Jurassic and 6 Cretaceous nominal species but this does include the two Jurassic and one Cretaceous nominal species of Evhelia

Distribution

  • Western Europe, Southern Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, North Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, South America; Middle Jurassic - Late Cretaceous

This page has been in preparation since 18-Aug-2009 17:36

This version was contributed by Bernard Lathuilière on 07-Aug-2014 14:25.

Page authors are: Bernard Lathuilière Ewa Roniewicz. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.

The editor is: Bernard Lathuilière


3 syntypes of the type species of Enallhelia
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Syntype of the type species of Enallhelia
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Syntype of the type species of Enallhelia
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Topotype of Enallhelia compressa type species of the genus
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