Scleractinia taxon 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
Kołodziej B. (2003). Scleractinian corals of suborders Pachythecaliina and Rhipidogyrina: discussion on similarities and description of species from Stramberk-type limestones, Polish Outer Carpathians. <em>Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae.</em> 73(3): 193-217. [details]
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Comparison Wells, 1956 considered Mitrodendron as a senior synonym of Aulastrea but Mitrodendron is generally considered as more clearly phaceloid and has a marginarium that is not complete around the septal apparatus (Eliášová, 1975). Amphiaulastrea is cerioid. [details]
Description Dendroid corallum with deep calices and rapid increase in diameter of branches. Corallite outline various in shape due to the Taschenknospung. Radial elements compact free septa s.s., unequal, of a fairly constant thickness, straight or curved. Distal edge smooth, steeply inclined near the wall, inner edge smooth, lateral faces smooth. No palis. Microstructure. No hexameral symmetry but a bilateral symmetry marked by a cardinal septum. Endotheca of large vesicles. No columella, no synapticulae. Cutting peripheral wall, externally smooth, probably a pachytheca. [details]
Remark Ten Jurassic nominal species and two Cretaceous (Löser 2000) [details]
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