Type species: Diastopora cervicornis Michelin, 1846 = Diastopora lamellosa Michelin, 1846
The genus Bidiastopora is a subjective synonym of Multisparsa. However, this page is maintained to record some species which need revision.
This genus includes the species:
(d'Orbigny, 1850) | Late Cretaceous Cenomanian | France | WoRMS 1410175 | |
Guha & Nathan, 1996 | Cretaceous | India | WoRMS 1400318 | |
d'Orbigny, 1851 | Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian | France | WoRMS 1400319 | |
Stoliczka, 1865 | Neogene Miocene | New Zealand | WoRMS 1400320 | |
Kirkpatrick, 1888 | Recent | SE Australia | WoRMS 472176 | |
(Reuss, 1848) | Neogene Miocene | Austria | WoRMS 1410176 | |
Guha & Nathan, 1996 | Cretaceous | India | WoRMS 1400321 |
Bidiastopora? torquata |
Bidiastopora page at d'Orbigny Home Page, Natural History Museum. These URL's have been deleted, and it is not yet possible to discover any link to the data (12/3/2017). It is possible to explore the information on the Wayback Machine
From the images of the type species in the d'Orbigny Collection, it is clear that this genus does not belong with the Plagioeciidae, and that the Recent species from Australia is not a close relative. Further revision to the web pages will be undertaken - eventually!