Scleractinia taxon details
Paleoastroides Chevalier, 1961 †
1439901 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439901)
accepted
Genus
Paleoastroides michelini Chevalier, 1961 † (type by original designation)
- Species Paleoastroides michelini Chevalier, 1961 †
- Species Paleoastroides provincialis Chevalier, 1961 †
- Species Paleoastroides subirregularis (Osasco, 1897) † accepted as Astroides subirregularis (Osasco, 1897) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Chevalier J-P. (1961). Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale. <em>Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Série.</em> 40(93): 1-562, pls. 1-26. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Paleoastroides Chevalier, 1961 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439901 on 2024-05-10
Date
action
by
original description
Chevalier J-P. (1961). Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale. <em>Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Série.</em> 40(93): 1-562, pls. 1-26. [details]
additional source Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> 119: 1-33. [details] Available for editors
additional source Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> 119: 1-33. [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Comparison Differs from Dendrophyllia in its plocoid growth form [details]Diagnosis Calices arranged in a plocoid manner; theca costate; Pourtalès plan present, but higher order septa anastomotic; columella well developed, ribboned; paliform lobes present. [details]
Remark This genus and family were monographed by Cairns (2001), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. Four exclusively fossil species. [details]
