Felixaraeoidea Beauvais, 1982

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 Felixaraeoidea Beauvais, 1982

Description.

Solitary and colonial (astreoid, meandroid, phaceloid) corals. Septa compact or perforated. Younger septal cycles have more perforations than older septal cycles. Septa very thick, those of the first cycles being the thickest. Septal symmetry regular or subregular radial. Septal upper margins with granulae, lateral faces with thorns. Lonsdaleoid septa and main septum absent. Microstructure of large trabeculae. Synapticulae common. Pali absent, columella parietal. Endotheca mostly absent. Marginarium and wall absent. Coenosteum in some genera. Budding extracalicinal.

Family Felixaraeidae Beauvais, 1982