WoRMS taxon details
Arctangia Wells, 1937 †
1289775 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1289775)
accepted
Genus
Thecocyathus nathorsti Lindström, 1900 † accepted as Arctangia nathorsti (Lindström, 1900) † (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Wells JW. (1937). Coral studies: Part II. Five new species of the Madreporaria. Five new genera of the Madreporaria. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 23 (97): 242-250, pl. 2. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Arctangia Wells, 1937 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1289775 on 2024-07-16
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original description
Wells JW. (1937). Coral studies: Part II. Five new species of the Madreporaria. Five new genera of the Madreporaria. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 23 (97): 242-250, pl. 2. [details]
additional source Baron-Szabo RC. (2005). Remarks on the genus Arctangia Wells, 1937, with the re-description of the type species Thecocyathus nathorsti Lindström, 1900 (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Norway. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 118(3): 479-482., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x(2005)118[479:rotgaw]2.0.co;2 [details]
additional source Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2016). Systematic descriptions of the Scleractinia - Family Rhizangiidae (nr. 80). <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> Volume 2, Chapter 10: 1-10. [details]
additional source Baron-Szabo RC. (2005). Remarks on the genus Arctangia Wells, 1937, with the re-description of the type species Thecocyathus nathorsti Lindström, 1900 (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Norway. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 118(3): 479-482., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x(2005)118[479:rotgaw]2.0.co;2 [details]
additional source Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2016). Systematic descriptions of the Scleractinia - Family Rhizangiidae (nr. 80). <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> Volume 2, Chapter 10: 1-10. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Solitary coral, turbinate to subturbinate, fixed by small base. Costosepta irregularly perforated, dentate laterally. Endothecal dissepiments thin and vesicular, sparse. Paliform structures irregularly present, mainly before S1–S3. Wall septoparathecal and synapticuloparathecal. Costae weakly developed, incorporated by epithecal stereome.Eepitheca multilamellar. [details]Remark The genus Arctangia Wells is a poorly known group that consists of only the type species Thecocyathus nathorsti Lindstrom, 1900. The original description is the only documentation of the species. Including the first description of the genus Arctangia by Wells (1937), all of the later interpretations of the species represent only adaptations of Lindstrom’s original report. Baron-Szabo (2005) presented a paper giving the re-description of the type species and also providing the first photographic images of this species based on newly discovered material. (NRM-PZ Cn 2, Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden). [details]
