Meandramorpha
Babaev, 1973, p. 107
Meandramorpha Babaev, 1973, p. 107 is a junior synonym (available and invalid), see Clausastrea d'Orbigny 1849 in Edwards and Haime, 1849, p. 159.
Type Species
Meandraraea (?) korthensis Bendukidze 1949, p.89/151, pl. 7 fig. 4; Original Designation
Type Specimen: Holotype; GNM 21/23; Not Traced; Unknown
Type Locality: Upper Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) from Korta (South Ossetia)
After a nomen nudum" Meandrarea korthiensis" in 1948, Bendukidze 1949 assigned her available species korthensis to Meandraraea with some doubts. Babaev 1973 created the genus Meandramorpha based on Meandraraea korthensis Bendukidze 1949 and created a second species M. daschkessanica (after a nomen nudum in 1967, p. 140). In 1982 Bendukidze reassigned her species to Clausastrea korthensis and the description of dissepiments initially depicted as vesiculose was then corrected as "sinusoidal tabuloid dissepiments" . M. daschkessanica that has a true wall between series cannot be a Clausastrea but cannot be named Meandramorpha anymore.
Classification
Description
Massive meandroid-thamnasterioid corallum. Radial elements compact montlivaltid. Microstructure unknown. Hexameral symmetry not deciphered, bilateral symmetry marked by curvature of septa and elongation of series. Endotheca made of sinusoidal tabuloid dissepiments , columella absent or parietal, no wall.
Distribution
- Eastern Europe; Late Jurassic
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This version was contributed by Bernard Lathuilière on 12-Mar-2011 09:42.
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