Thamnasteria
Extinct genus of corals
Thamnasteria is a genus of extinct stony corals.
01Species
The following species of Thamnasteria have been described:
- T. abukumaensis
- T. andranomarivensis
- T. aspera
- T. bevoayensis
- T. bonanomii
- T. communis
- T. concinna
- T. concinnaformis
- T. coquandi
- T. cotteaui
- T. defrancei
- T. dendroidea
- T. dumonti
- T. felixi
- T. globosa
- T. gracilis
- T. heterogenea
- T. hoffmeisteri
- T. huzimotoi
- T. imlayi
- T. iranensis
- T. jaccardi
- T. japonica
- T. jezoensis
- T. kobyi
- T. latistellata
- T. leptopetala
- T. lobata
- T. loryi
- T. lyelli
- T. maeandra
- T. mammosa
- T. matsushitai
- T. mettensis
- T. microconos
- T. miyakoensis
- T. moreana
- T. naumanni
- T. nicoleti
- T. ogawaensis
- T. patina
- T. pseudopaliformis
- T. racemosa
- T. rhaetica
- T. rumignyensis
- T. scita
- T. seriata
- T. settsassi
- T. sinuata
- T. sinuosa
- T. smithi
- T. tenuissima
- T. terquemi
- T. tokushimaensis
- T. tonantzinae
- T. torinosuensis
- T. yuraensis
02Fossil 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 (Coquina Group, La Guajira), India, Thailand, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Madagascar, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and Peru. M. LeSauvage, the author of the genus was a physician in Caen. He wrote numerous papers on medical subjects but his other interest was in palaeontology and especially the fossils of Calcaires de Caen the type locality of the genus Thamnasteria.
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