Isastrocoenia

Gregory, 1900, p. 130

Type Species

Isastrocoenia kachensis Gregory, 1900: 131, pl. 16, fig. 1; Original Designation

Type Specimen: Syntype; GSI N° 6754; Verified; Dry Preserved

Type Locality: Middle Bathonian, Coral Bed, Jumara Dome, Kachchh, India

he genus has not been revised ever since Gregory recorded from Kachchh.

Diagnosis

Corallum colonial, plocoid, calices distinct marked by septoparathecal wall, both intra- and intercalicular increase, costo-septa compact, confluent, septal surface ornamented with granules. Endothecal and exothecal dissepiments present. Columella absent.

Comparisons

Gregory has compared this genus with Astrocoenia and Isastraea. From the former it differs by absence of columella and it differs from both by its plocoid growth instead of cerioid.

Remarks

The detail of septal microstructure of this genus is not known.

Distribution

• South Asia; Middle Jurassic

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This version was contributed by Bernard Lathuilière on 29-Jan-2013 13:48.

Page authors are: Dhirendra Kumar Pandey. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.

The editor is: Bernard Lathuilière