Scleractinia name details
Platastraea Tomes, 1885 †
1581436 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1581436)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
Isastrea conybeari Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 † (type by subsequent designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Tomes RF. (1885). On some new or imperfectly known Madreporaria from the Great Oolite of the counties of Oxford, Gloucester and Somerset. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 41: 170-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1885.041.01-04.24 [details]
Description Massive corallum with a variable colonial structure cerioid to plocoid or thamnasterioid. Big corallites. Costulate lower...
Description Massive corallum with a variable colonial structure cerioid to plocoid or thamnasterioid. Big corallites. Costulate lower surface without epitheca. Increase probably intracalicular and extracalicular. Radial elements are compact, free or anastomosed, bicuneiform or attenuated straight to curved costosepta. Distal edge not well preserved, inner edge anastomosed in depth of the axial zone. Lateral faces not observed, no pali Microstructure unknown. Hexameral symmetry not deciphered, bilateral symmetry sometimes poorly marked by curvature of septa. Endotheca made of vesicular and tabuloid dissepiments , columella absent to weak parietal, synapticulae absent, parathecal wall, not really a structural wall. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Platastraea Tomes, 1885 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1581436 on 2026-05-10
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Tomes RF. (1885). On some new or imperfectly known Madreporaria from the Great Oolite of the counties of Oxford, Gloucester and Somerset. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 41: 170-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1885.041.01-04.24 [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]
source of synonymy 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]
source of synonymy 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]
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Description Massive corallum with a variable colonial structure cerioid to plocoid or thamnasterioid. Big corallites. Costulate lower surface without epitheca. Increase probably intracalicular and extracalicular. Radial elements are compact, free or anastomosed, bicuneiform or attenuated straight to curved costosepta. Distal edge not well preserved, inner edge anastomosed in depth of the axial zone. Lateral faces not observed, no pali Microstructure unknown. Hexameral symmetry not deciphered, bilateral symmetry sometimes poorly marked by curvature of septa. Endotheca made of vesicular and tabuloid dissepiments , columella absent to weak parietal, synapticulae absent, parathecal wall, not really a structural wall. [details]Remark One nominal species [details]
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