Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Alloiteau J. (1952). Embranchement des Coelentérés. Madreporaires Post-Paleozoiques. <em>In: Piveteau J, ed. Traité de Paléontologie, Paris: Masson.</em> 539–684, pls. 1-10. [details]
basis of record
Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source
Leloux J. (2003). Columactinastraea anthonii sp. nov. (Scleractinia, Astrocoeniina), a new coral species from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of The Netherlands. <em>Scripta Geologica.</em> 126: 185-201. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Colonial. Massive, cerioid, cerio-plocoid. Budding extracalicular. Corallites irregularly polygonal to rounded in outline, directly united by their septothecal or parathecal walls. Costosepta compact. Septal margins finely granulated. Columella styliform, sublamellar, or absent and might form by extensions of axial edges of septa as pseudo-columella. Pali before septa of first cycle complete or incomplete, pali before second cycle septa complete, incomplete or absent. Endothecal dissepiments thin, vesicular or subtabulate. Wall septothecal; thecal pores (lacunes) present or absent. [details]
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