Undaria pusilla
(Verrill, 1901)
Holotype: YPM 1489; Recent; Colon, Panama.
Morphologic Description:
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- Colony Form: meandroid
- Colony Shape: encrusting masses or thin plates
- Colline Characteristics: low
- Series Length: long
- Budding Type: intramural
- Coralllite Diameter: 1.4-1.9 mm
- Calical Surface Shape: closed, often star-like
- Septa Per Corallite: 15-21
- Lobes: none
- Columella Structure: trabecular and discontinuous
- Columella Development: strong
- Wall Structure: synapticulothecal
Synonyms: none
Photograph: Scale bar is approx 0.5 cm. Image is of SUI 63897 (San Blas Islands, Panama. Recent).
Photograph: Scale bar is approx. 1.5 mm. Image is of SUI 63898 (San Blas Islands, Panama. Recent).
Distribution:
Early Pliocene, Q.Chocolate Formation. Q. Brazo Seco, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene, Seroe Domi Formation. St. Michiel ridges, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Late Pliocene, Moin Formation. Pueblo Nuevo, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Moin Formation. Portete, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Seroe Domi Formation. St. Michiel seacliff, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Middle Pleistocene, Middle Terrace Formation. Hato, Curacao, south Caribbean.
