Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Milaschewitsch C. (1876). Die Korallen der Nattheimer Schichten. Zweite Abteilung. <em>Paleontographica.</em> 21 (7): 182-243, pls. 36-51. [details]
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Description Solitary corallum with a tendancy to the flabelloid shape.Infundibuliform calice. No epitheca, costae subequal and granulated with locally curved and with angular arrangement. Radial elements are subcompact free or anastomosed costosepta, unequal, with a thickness rather constant notwithstanding the ornamentation, from outer edge to the inner edge, straight to slightly curved. Distal edge with subregular teeth, inner edge with detached trabeculae, lateral faces strongly ornamented with flattened granules (vertically or less commonly horizontally compressed, asymmetrically arranged with regards to the septal plan). No palis. Microstructure unknown. Hexameral symmetry not deciphered, bilateral symmetry strongly marked with the elongations of the corallite and of the axial zone. Endotheca made of dissepiments sloping down to the center , columella papillose, probably some synapticules present, wall of unknown nature. [details]
Remark One nominal Jurassic species [details]
Status A junior synonym of Epistreptophyllum [details]
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