Agatheliidae, Beauvais & Beauvais, 1975

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 198

Family Agatheliidae L. & M. Beauvais, 1975

(= Ficariastraeidae M. Beauvais, 1982 , = Hemiporitidae Alloiteau, 1952a p .p.)

Diagnosis. Colonial, plocoid. Gemmation due to extracalicinal budding. Costosepta compact, arranged radially in 6 systems, beaded marginally. Columella styliform, or slightly spongy or lamellar. Endotheca sparsely developed. Septotheca formed by well-developed and abortive septa. Peritheca present, granulated. Microstructure of perithecal lamellae is identical with that in the Heterocoeniidae .

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Fig. 1 Tubicora aylmeri ( Gregory, 1900) , holotype, BMNH, R. 5032. cross view of colony, polished surface, Upper Paleocene-Lower Eocene of Somalia, scale bar: 5 mm. Fig. 2 Euphyllia calyculata (Catullo, 1847) (holotype of Plocophyllia karstica Turnšek & Drobne, 1998 ), SAZU, DvW-23B (981a), Montian of Slovenia. 2a, cross thin section of corallite, scale bar: 4 mm. 2b, cross thin section of colony, scale bar: 4 mm. Fig. 3 Agathelia asperella Reuss, 1854 , BMNH, AZ 895, cross thin section, Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of the UAE / Oman border region, scale bar: 4 mm. Fig. 4 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis ( Duncan, 1865) , NMNH, Coates coll., no. 534d, cross thin section, Maastrichtian of Jamaica, scale bar: 2 mm. Fig. 5 Euphyllia calyculata (Catullo, 1847) , topotype, GBA, 1874/3/56, Oligocene of Italy. 5a, upper surface, cross view, scale bar: 4 mm; 5b, longitudinal view, scale bar: 7 mm. Fig. 6 Cladophyllia cf. furcifera Roemer, 1888 , NMNH, Coates coll., no. J-71-34r, cross thin section of corallite, Maastrichtian of Jamaica, scale bar: 2.5 mm. Fig.

7 Cladophyllia stewartae Wells, 1944 , BMNH, AZ 575, Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of the UAE / Oman border region. 7a, close-up of corallite in budding stage, scale bar: 2 mm; 7b, close-up of corallite showing ‘septal division’,scale bar: 2 mm; 7c, cross thin section of colony, scale bar: 4 mm