Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Laube G. C. (1865). Die Fauna der Schichten von St. Cassian. I. Abteilung. Spongitarien, Corallen, Echiniden und Crinoiden, I. <em>Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> 24: 223-266, pls. 1-5. [details]
basis of record
Tomes RF. (1884). A comparative and critical revision of the Madreporaria of the White Lias of the middle and western counties of England, and of those of the conglomerate at the base of the
South-Wales Lias. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 40: 353-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.JGS.1884.40.01-04.33 [details]
From editor or global species database
Comparison The genus differs from other cerioid and cerioid-meandroid Triassic corals in small corallites with pennular septal micromorphology. [details]
Diagnosis Cerioid and/or meandroid. Increase intracalicular without linkages between centers. Radial elements of septal type. Internal septal edges free or temporarily giving origin to a solid columella. Septal faces covered with pennules which may form menianes. Endotheca dissepimental. Intercorallite wall built of peripheral margins of alternating septa of adjacent corallites. Holotheca present. [details]
Remark The name Elysastrea was applied by diverse authors in the literature to different corals. [details]
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