Montlivaltioidea Felix, 1900

Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, Zitteliana 97, pp. 89-147 : 89-147

Superfamily Montlivaltioidea Felix, 1900

Description.

Solitary and (astreoid, cerioid, flabelloid, meandroid, phaceloid, thamnasterioid) colonial corals. Septa compact. Septal thickness regular, septa in an irregular radial symmetry, but septal generations can be distinguished. Septa not connected to each other. Septal lateral faces with vertical keels, upper margins with granulae. Lonsdaleoid septa and main septum absent. Microstructure of large trabeculae. Synapticulae absent. Pali rarely present. Columella in some genera, generally lamellar. Endotheca well-developed. Marginarium absent. Wall poorly defined, generally only with an epitheca. Coenosteum present, depending on the organisation form. Budding generally extracalicinal.