Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Turnšek D, Seyfried H, Geyer OF. (1975). Geologische und paläontologische Untersuchungen an einem Korallen-Vorkommen im subbetischen Unterjura von Murcia (Süd-Spanien). <em>Razprave Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti IV.</em> 18: 117-151. [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]
From editor or global species database
Description Massive or ramose cerioid corallum with polygonal corallites. Radial elements are compact, free, short, unequal septa. Strong bilateral symmetry due to the strongly thickened "Hauptseptum". Endotheca made of few short tabuloid dissepiments, no columella, no synapticulae, wall granulose in distal view, unknown in nature. [details]
Remark Hispaniastraea was placed by their authors in the family Amphiastreidae due to the very special septal apparatus. It is worth noting that several characters (apomorphic or plesiomorphic) of the family as proposed by Stolarski and Russo 2001 are not well established: endotheca in two zones, pachytheca, Taschenknospung…Two species known. The type-species was also interpreted as a chaetetid (Chaetetes (Pseudoseptifer) murciana in Beauvais 1980f p. 30). [details]
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