Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys
Author
Vasseur, Raphaël
Université de Lorraine, CNRS, lab. GeoRessources, UMR 7359, BP 70239, F- 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy cedex (France)
raphaelvasseur@wanadoo.fr
Author
Lathuilière, Bernard
Université de Lorraine, CNRS, lab. GeoRessources, UMR 7359, BP 70239, F- 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy cedex (France)
bernard.lathuiliere@univ-lorraine.fr
text
Geodiversitas
2021
2021-11-23
43
22
1187
1291
journal article
10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22
1638-9395
5764379
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6D1643AD-66A5-4678-9397-CE08E610D641
Genus
Tubulosmilia
n. gen.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
0B6B1523-7696-436C-9EAB-54F854ADBEAD
TYPE
SPECIES. —
Tubulosmilia regularis
n. sp.
DIAGNOSIS. — Phaceloid corallum with cylindrical corallites that seems to reproduce by extracalicular budding. Radial elements are free or joined, often wavy septa of fluctuating width with inner edge generally swollen. The first cycles of septa are generally so enlarged that they link together into a ring that more or less completely encloses the lumen and separate it from the interseptal chambers. Endotheca made of tabular dissepiments and wall probably parathecal. An epitheca
s.l
. wraps the corallites.
ETYMOLOGY. — Refers to the tube-like shape of the corallites.