Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Cuif, J.P. (1977). Arguments pour une relation phylétique entre les Madréporaires paléozoïques et ceux du Trias. Implications systématiques et l'analyse microstructurale des Madréporaires triasiques. <em>Mémoires dela Société Géologique de France n.s.</em> 56 (129): 1–54. [details]
original description
(of Margarophylliidae Beauvais, 1981 †) Beauvais L. (1981). Sur la taxinomie des Madréporaires mésozoïques. <em>Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.</em> 25 (3-4): 345-360,. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Solitary, phaceloid or cerioid-meandroid; increase intracalicular, without connection between centers, or with lamellar connections; radial elements of costoseptal type; midseptal zone straight, rarely zigzag; lateral, subvertical folds, which are symmetrically distributed on the septal sides, rarely alternating, thick granules form singular rows along the folds; distal border with granules in a straight row or alternating; endotheca dissepimental; wall epithecal, pellicular. [details]
Status nomen correctum ex “groupe Margarophyllia” Cuif, 1977, spelling corrected Roniewicz 1989: 24 into subfamily Margarophylliinae Cuif, 1977 [details]
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