Latiastrea Beauvais, 1964
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0390879F-3848-FFBE-2E07-FB40E490F8D3 |
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Felipe |
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Latiastrea Beauvais, 1964 |
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Genus Latiastrea Beauvais, 1964 View in CoL
Type species. Latiastrea foulassensis Beauvais, 1964 , Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of France (Valfin-les-Saint-Claude) .
Diagnosis. Colonial, massive, cerioid to meandroid. Budding intracalicular. Corallites prismatic, elongate, monocentric, or temporarily dicentric (to?polycentric) during budding processes, or arranged in meandroid series. Costosepta non-confluent to subconfluent, with rare perforations on axial ends of septa. Anastomosis present. Rudimentary young septa alternate with old ones. Septal flanks are ornamented with large, spiniform granulae. Pennulae present. Distal margins covered with small, regularly developed rounded denticles. Synapticulae present. Columella parietal-spongy, sometimes forming elongate segments. Intertrabecular distance ranging between 100 to around 200 µm. Endothecal dissepiments thin, vesicular. Wall synapticulothecal and septothecal.
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