Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Ogilvie, M.M. (1897). Die Korallen der Stramberger Schichten. <em>Palaeontographica, A,.</em> 7, Suppl. 2: 73-284. [details]
basis of record
Wells JW. (1936). The nomenclature and type species of some genera of recent and fossil corals. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> 31: 97-134., available online at https://ajsonline.org/article/61464 [details]
additional source
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]
From editor or global species database
Description Solitary corallum , outline elongate to reniform in transverse section. Finely striated epitheca with wavy growth rolls, covering costae. Radial elements compact free rather attenuated , straight or slightly curved, poorly ornamented. Strong bilateral symmetry with elongation of the corallite and of the fossa. The dorso-ventral plan could be perpendicular to the elongation of the fossa. Endotheca of large vesiculose dissepiments sloping down from the top of the wall to the fossa very steeply, even near the fossa, no columella, no synapticulae, wall in continuity with septa. [details]
Remark Four nominal species in Jurassic. Another one cited in Aptian of China [details]
Status Possible synonym of Cheilosmilia [details]
Type designation Subsequent designation by Wells (1936) [details]
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