Goldfussastrea
Beauvais, 1964, p. 170
Type Species
Goldfussastrea heidenheimensis Beauvais p. 171, pl. 16 fig. 10, text fig. 35; Original Designation
Type Specimen: Holotype; ?; Lost; Unknown
Type Locality: Upper Jurassic Heidenheim (Germany)
The type-specimen of the Goldfuss' collection was searched without success in Bonn and in Paris, it is partly polished.
Classification
Diagnosis
Like Isastrea but with a lamellar columella and absent or incomplete wall.
Description
Massive subceroid or astreoid to meandroid corallum. Lower face without holotheca. Radial elements are compact, rather free, non confluent or subconfluent, straight to curved unequal in length. Distal edge with acute or rounded strong equal teeth, lateral faces with granules connected in opposite carinae perpendicular to the distal edge. Montlivaltid microstructure. No pali. Radial and bilateral symmetry (occasionally opposite septa joining the columella). Abundant vesiculose endotheca. Lamellar columella, polytrabecular in microstructure. No synapticule. Wall absent or incomplete.
Remarks
The genus seems to be very close of Isastrea. The "absence" of wall is something possible in the normal variability of this genus. Nevertheless the lamellar columella is a distinctive character. Three potential species (see Lathuilière 2000 and Morsch 2001).
Distribution
- Western Europe, North Africa, South America; Early Jurassic - Late Jurassic
This page has been in preparation since 18-Aug-2009 17:48
This version was contributed by Bernard Lathuilière on 12-Mar-2011 09:03.
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The editor is: Bernard Lathuilière
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