Pironastrea discoides d'Archiardi, 1875

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 160

Pironastrea discoides d'Archiardi, 1875

Pl. 14, figs 5, 6

v*1875 Pironastrea discoides , m.: d'Archiardi, p. 197, pl. 18, figs 2a–3d.

1909 Pironastrea discoides d'Arch. : Oppenheim, p. 320.

1925 Pironastrea discoides d'Archiardi 1875 : Felix, pars 28, p. 130 (older synonmys cited therein).

v1992 Pironastrea sp. : Budd et al, p. 578, fig. 4.2.

v1998 Pironastrea discoides d'Archiardi, 1875 : Turnšek, in Turnšek & Drobne, p. 137, pl. 8, figs 1a–2.

Dimensions. c-c (same and adjacent series)=1.5– 3 mm, in areas of intense budding corallite distance is smaller or indistinct; s=12–24; s/mm=25–35/5.

Description. Mound-shaped or explanate; corallites monocentric or arranged in wavy series of distinct or indistinct corallite centers, separated by rather flat tholiform collines; septa subequal; columella spongy-trabecular or formed by 1 or 2 twisted segments.

Type locality of species. Middle Eocene of Italy (Friul) .

Distribution. Thanetian-Eocene of Italy, Middle Eocene of Bosnia.