Synastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848b

Loeser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Rosssteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) - a revised and extended version, Zitteliana 97, pp. 89-147 : 89

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796

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scientific name

Synastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848b
status

 

Synastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848b

Type species.

Astrea agaricites Goldfuss, 1826.

Description.

Thamnasterioid colony with strong, only at the inner margin perforated septa, that barely differ in length and thickness. The corallites are regularly distributed, often slightly depressed. Costae run between all corallites.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Synastreidae