Scleractinia taxon details
Craspedosmilia Turnšek & Senowbari-Daryan, 1994 †
1440122 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1440122)
accepted
Genus
Craspedosmilia graeca Turnšek & Senowbari-Daryan, 1994 † (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Turnšek, D.; Senowbari-Daryan, B. (1994). Upper Triassic (Carnian-Lowermost Norian) corals from the Pantokrator limestone of Hydra. <em>Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt.</em> 50: 477-507. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Craspedosmilia Turnšek & Senowbari-Daryan, 1994 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1440122 on 2026-04-30
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original description
Turnšek, D.; Senowbari-Daryan, B. (1994). Upper Triassic (Carnian-Lowermost Norian) corals from the Pantokrator limestone of Hydra. <em>Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt.</em> 50: 477-507. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Comparison The coral for its thick columella and regular shape of corallites resembles Craspedophyllia, but for its septal microstructure, with traces of thick trabecular septa of the highest order, cannot be placed near to the above genus. In microstructure of septa is rather close to Rhopalophyllia Cuif , however its subradial arrangement of septal apparatus differentiated into very thick and very thin costo-septa, lacking any traces of arrangement into descending series, prevents such a classification. [details]Diagnosis Phaceloid. Corallites circular in cross section. Septa compact, free, with rough lateral ornamentation looking like horizontal thorns. Symmetry subradial. Septa of 2-3 first orders are thick, fusiform in shape. Septal blades of the higher order show rather regular sections of thick trabeculae. Endotheca vesicular; ?rare synapticulae. Ciolumella strong, solid, slightly elliptical in section. [details]
Remark For a deep recrystallization of the skeleton, additional information on this coral is unavailable. The coral can be attributed to the Conophyllidae only with reservation. [details]
