Thamnasteria

Thamnasteria
Temporal range: TriassicEocene 247.2–33.9 Ma
Thamnasteria from Rhaetian of Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Subclass: Hexacorallia
Order: Scleractinia
Family: Thamnasteriidae
Genus: Thamnasteria
LeSauvage 1823 [1]
Synonyms
  • Centrastrea d'Orbigny 1849
  • Dactylocoenia d'Orbigny 1849
  • Thamnastraea Lesauvage 1832

Thamnasteria is an extinct genus of stony corals.

Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Triassic to the Eocene (from about 247.2 to 33.9 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found in Europe, United States, Canada, China, Japan, Pakistan, Colombia, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Madagascar, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and Peru.[2] M. LeSauvage, the author of the genus was a physician in Caen. He wrote numerous papers on medical subjects but his other interest was palaeontology and especially the fossils of Calcaires de Caen the type locality of the genus Thamnasteria.

References

  1. Lesauvage, M. 1823. Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de Polypier fossile. Mémoires de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, 1(2): 241–244.
  2. Paleobiology Database
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