Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Reuss, A. E. (1854). Beiträge zur Charakteristik der Kreideschichten in den Ostalpen, besonders im Gosauthale und am Wolfgangsee. <em>Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschafliche Classe.</em> 7: 1-156, errata, pls 1-31. Wien., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6343979 [details] 
original description
(of Placophora de Fromentel, 1879 †) Fromentel, E de. (1862-1887). Paléontologie française. Terrains Crétacés. VIII: Zoophytes. Masson, Paris, 8, 624 pp. (1862: pp. 1–44;
1877: pp. 433–480; 1887: 609–624; 1873: plates). [details]
basis of record
Beauvais L, Beauvais M. (1975). Une nouvelle famille dans le sous-ordre des Stylinida Alloiteau: les Agatheliidae nov. fam. (Madréporaires mésozoïques). <em>Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 7e série.</em> 17: 576-581. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Colonial, massive, plocoid. Gemmation extracalicinal. Costosepta compact, radially or bilaterally arranged in 6 systems. Stunted septa present. Distal septal margin covered with small subequal denticles. Septal flanks ornamented with spiniform granulae aligned in a row that lies perpendicular to the distal margin. Columella feebly developed, parietal-spongy to lamellar. Auriculae present before S3 and younger. Endothecal dissepiments vesicular to subtabulate. Exothecal dissepiments vesicular, abundant. Septothecal wall with stunted septa. Wall covered by concentric perithecal lamellae. Perithecal sheets with granulate surface and separated by vesicular dissepiments. Microstructure of perithecal lamellae is identical with that in Heterocoeniidae. [details]
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