Ogilviastraea
Oppenheim, 1930, p. 357
Type Species
Placohelia bigemmis Felix, 1903a: 325; Subsequent Designation Oppenheim, 1930: 357
Type Specimen: Syntype; GBA 1903/325/FF; Verified; Unknown
Type Locality: Santonian of Austria (Gosau Group at Zimmergraben).
Additional syntypes are housed at NHMW (Vienna) under 1959/0050/0313 and at GPS (Leipzig) under FLX 4680.
Classification
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Colonial, dendroid. Gemmation intracalicinal (bigemmation). Calices are subcircular or elliptical. Perithecal dissepiments abundant, vesicular. Costosepta compact, arranged radially or bilaterally, finely granulated laterally. Paliform structures and synapticulae present. Columella trabecular, thin and lamellar or variably spongy-papillose. Endothecal dissepiments few in number. Wall synapticulothecal-septothecal, forming a stereozone.
Distribution
- Central Europe; Late Cretaceous
- Central Asia; Late Cretaceous
- South Asia; Late Cretaceous
- Caribbean; Late Cretaceous
Cretaceous: Austria, ?India (Ladakh), ?Kazakhstan, ?Senegal, Jamaica.This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:36
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 01-Sep-2010 14:12.
Page authors are: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Rosemarie Baron-Szabo
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