Elephantaria Oppenheim, 1930

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 109-110

Genus Elephantaria Oppenheim, 1930

Type species. Elephantaria lindstroemi Oppenheim, 1930a , Santonian of Austria (Gosau Group) .

pact to porous, granulate laterally. Columellar trabeculae and synapticulae present. Endothecal dissepiments thin, vesicular.

Subgenus. Bosnopsammia Oppenheim, 1909 (Type species. Bosnopsammia katzeri Oppenheim, 1909 , Eocene of Bosnia); like Elephantaria but trabecular portions in corallite center form larger trabecular-papillose columella with a more or less distinct development of paliform lobes.

Remarks. Based on a single specimen, Oppenheim (1909, p. 315) described the colonial coral Bosnopsammia . Oppenheim stated that it showed eupsammiid characteristics, closely resembling the genera Coenopsammia and Stereopsammia . However, following re-investigation of a large number of specimens collected from the type locality during the years after he had published the first description, Oppenheim (1912, p. 106) revised his original diagnosis of the genus, stating that in well preserved specimens the development of septa, as well as wall, and corallite integration rather indicated that it was a taxon closely related to the genus Actinacis . According to Oppenheim (1912), the genus Bosnopsammia is characterized by corallites embedded in a porous coenosteum with costosepta irregularly connecting them, and with frequently occurring nonconfluent septa, extracalicinal budding, costosepta having pores and granulated margins, and corallite centers filled with trabecular-papillose columella with a more or less distinct development of paliform lobes. Therefore, as a subgenus, the synonymy with the taxon Elephantaria is suggested.