Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1849). Note sur des Polypiers fossiles. <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2e sér.</em> 1: 526-538. [details]
additional source
Reyeros Navarro MM. (1963). Corales del Cretácico inferior de San Juan Raya, Estado de Puebla. <em>Paleontología Mexicana.</em> 17: 1-21, pls. 1-5. [details]
source of synonymy
Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Description of the syntype Massive elongated dome shaped plocoid colony. Corallite round with a calicular platform characterized by a vertical slope at the wall and a nearly horizontal, gently convex upward floor. The wall has no relief with regards to the peritheca. No holotheca. Radial elements are compact free costosepta whose the septal part is very short. Septa and costae with parallel edges. They are arranged in hexameral symmetry. S2 and S3 are only small ribs on the wall. The inner edge is vertical and smooth. Costae are confluent. The center of the corallite is a wide fossa in which the floor made of a tabula is generally well visible. [details]
Remark 66 Jurassic and 21 Cretaceous nominal species, of which many belong toPseudocoenia [details]
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