Poritoidea Gray, 1842

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13306432

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scientific name

Poritoidea Gray, 1842
status

 

Superfamily Poritoidea Gray, 1842 View in CoL

Description.

Colonial (astreoid, plocoid) corals. Septa irregularly perforated. Symmetry of septa irregular radial or bilateral. Septa connected to each other. Septal distal margin coarsely dentated, lateral face with rare granulae, inner margin slightly swollen in places. Lonsdaleoid septa and main septum absent. Microstructure of medium-sized trabeculae. Synapticulae abundant. Pali present in some genera. Columella and endotheca present. Marginarium absent. Wall varies. Coenosteum generally present. Budding extracalicinal.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia