Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version
Author
Löser, Hannes
Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Blvd. Luis Donaldo Colosio S / N y Madrid, 83250 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Author
Werner, Winfried
SNSB – Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie and GeobioCenterLMU, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, D- 80333 München, Germany
Author
Darga, Robert
Naturkunde- und Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf, Auenstraße 2, D- 83313 Siegsdorf, Germany
text
Zitteliana
2023
2023-12-20
97
89
147
journal article
10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796
D4564419-3213-4D38-96BB-E7CFE157E0F8
Polyastropsis
Alloiteau, 1957
Type
species.
Polyastropsis arnaudi
Alloiteau, 1957
.
Description.
Thamnasterioid-cerioid colony. Corallite outline irregular with corallite centres slightly depressed. Symmetry of septa irregular. Costae confluent or sub-confluent. Synapticulae occasional, mainly in the space between corallites. Columella consists of isolated trabeculae or one more solid element. Wall subcompact, made of synapticulae.
Polyastreopsis
differs from
Thalamocaeniopsis
by a poorly defined corallite outline, and a more incomplete wall.