Thamnasteria
Appearance
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Thamnasteria | |
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From Rhaetian of Italy | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hexacorallia |
Order: | Scleractinia |
Family: | †Thamnasteriidae |
Genus: | †Thamnasteria LeSauvage 1823 [1] |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
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Thamnasteria is a genus of extinct stony corals.
Species
[edit]The following species of Thamnasteria have been described:[2]
- T. abukumaensis
- T. andranomarivensis
- T. aspera
- T. bevoayensis
- T. bonanomii
- T. communis
- T. concinna
- T. concinnaformis
- T. coquandi
- T. cotteaui
- T. defrancei
- T. dendroidea
- T. dumonti
- T. felixi
- T. globosa
- T. gracilis
- T. heterogenea
- T. hoffmeisteri
- T. huzimotoi
- T. imlayi
- T. iranensis
- T. jaccardi
- T. japonica
- T. jezoensis
- T. kobyi
- T. latistellata
- T. leptopetala
- T. lobata
- T. loryi
- T. lyelli
- T. maeandra
- T. mammosa
- T. matsushitai
- T. mettensis
- T. microconos
- T. miyakoensis
- T. moreana
- T. naumanni
- T. nicoleti
- T. ogawaensis
- T. patina
- T. pseudopaliformis
- T. racemosa
- T. rhaetica
- T. rumignyensis
- T. scita
- T. seriata
- T. settsassi
- T. sinuata
- T. sinuosa
- T. smithi
- T. tenuissima
- T. terquemi
- T. tokushimaensis
- T. tonantzinae
- T. torinosuensis
- T. yuraensis
Fossil records
[edit]This genus is known in the fossil record from the Triassic to the Eocene (from about 247.2 to 33.9 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found in Europe, United States, Canada, China, Japan, Pakistan, Colombia (Coquina Group, La Guajira), India, Thailand, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Madagascar, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and Peru.[2] M. LeSauvage, the author of the genus was a physician in Caen. He wrote numerous papers on medical subjects but his other interest was in palaeontology and especially the fossils of Calcaires de Caen the type locality of the genus Thamnasteria.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Lesauvage, M. 1823. Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de Polypier fossile. Mémoires de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, 1(2): 241–244.
- ^ a b Paleobiology Database
Categories:
- Scleractinia
- Prehistoric Hexacorallia genera
- Triassic first appearances
- Eocene genus extinctions
- Jurassic animals of Africa
- Jurassic animals of Asia
- Jurassic animals of Europe
- Jurassic animals of North America
- Jurassic animals of South America
- Jurassic Argentina
- Jurassic Chile
- Jurassic Colombia
- Jurassic Peru
- Cretaceous animals of Asia
- Cretaceous animals of Europe
- Cretaceous animals of North America
- Paleogene animals of Europe
- Paleogene animals of North America
- Fossil taxa described in 1823
- Prehistoric cnidarian stubs
- Hexacorallia stubs