Multicolumnastraea Vaughan, 1899

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 201

publication ID

1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5241713

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scientific name

Multicolumnastraea Vaughan, 1899
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Genus Multicolumnastraea Vaughan, 1899

Type species. Heliastraea cyathiformis Duncan, 1865 , Campanian of Jamaica (Trout Hall) (see Duncan & Wall 1865).

Diagnosis. Colonial, massive, columnar, lamellar, plocoid. Gemmation extracalicinal. Costosepta compact. Septal margins regularly dentate. Costae rarely extend over the coenosteum. Columella formed by 3 or 4 pillars. Pali in front of first and second septal cycles. Wall septothecal. Endotheca well-developed, consisting of fine and densely packed dissepiments. Perithecal wall vesicular. Auriculae present before septal cycles younger than S2.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Faviidae

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