Cladophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851b

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 203

Genus Cladophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851b

Type species. Lithodendron dichotomum Goldfuss, 1826 , Upper Jurassic of Germany (Giengen) (see Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851b); subsequent designation by Wells, 1933.

Diagnosis. Colonial, phaceloid. Corallites laterally free, temporarily fused with walls. Gemmation by septal division with succeeding dichotomic forking of corallites. Symmetry radial or radiobilateral. Corallites subcircular in cross section. Calicular edge sharp. Septa nonexsert. Septal faces with small and sharply pointed granulae. Inner edge with regular, auricular denticles. Interseptal anastomosis present. Columella essential, trabecular. Endotheca composed of tabulate dissepiments and incomplete ring of large peripheral dissepiments. Septotheca thick with transversely wrinkled surface. Trabeculae between 30 and 80 µm in diameter.