Scleractinia taxon details
Icaunhelia Beauvais, 1958 †
1581237 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1581237)
accepted
Genus
Icaunhelia michelini L. Beauvais, 1958 † (type by original designation)
Archaeosmilia Melnikova, 1975 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Not documented
Description Solitary trochoid corallum. Externally smooth. Cutting calicular edge. Calice subcircular infundibuliform with a deep...
Description Solitary trochoid corallum. Externally smooth. Cutting calicular edge. Calice subcircular infundibuliform with a deep calicular platform. Radial elements are, compact, free septa s. s. , strongly attenuated, straight or very slightly curved at their inner edge. Lateral faces and distal edge smooth. Some lonsdaleioid septa. Perfect hexameral arrangement. Bilateral symmetry marked by the elongated fossa and the short dorso-ventral S1. Endotheca made of steeply inclined tabulae leaving a wide porosity. As the endotheca is in continuity with septa the wall can be said paraseptothecal. No synapticule, no palus. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Icaunhelia Beauvais, 1958 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1581237 on 2026-06-13
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(of Archaeosmilia Melnikova, 1975 †) Melnikova GK. (1975). Novye rannejurskye predstaviteli Amphiastraeina (Skleraktinii) Yugo-Vostochnogo Pamira. In: Djalilov, M.R. (Ed.), Voprosy Paleontolgii Tajikistana (in Russian). <em>Donish, Dushanbe.</em> pp. 108–118. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Description Solitary trochoid corallum. Externally smooth. Cutting calicular edge. Calice subcircular infundibuliform with a deep calicular platform. Radial elements are, compact, free septa s. s. , strongly attenuated, straight or very slightly curved at their inner edge. Lateral faces and distal edge smooth. Some lonsdaleioid septa. Perfect hexameral arrangement. Bilateral symmetry marked by the elongated fossa and the short dorso-ventral S1. Endotheca made of steeply inclined tabulae leaving a wide porosity. As the endotheca is in continuity with septa the wall can be said paraseptothecal. No synapticule, no palus. [details]
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