Thamnasteria is a genus of extinct stony corals.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Family: | †Thamnasteriidae |
| Genus: | †Thamnasteria LeSauvage 1823 [1] |
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Species
editThe following species of Thamnasteria have been described:[2]
- 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
Fossil records
editThis 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.[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 in palaeontology and especially the fossils of Calcaires de Caen the type locality of the genus Thamnasteria.
See also
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References
edit- ^ Lesauvage, M. 1823. Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de Polypier fossile. Mémoires de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, 1(2): 241–244.
- ^ a b Paleobiology Database
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