Agathiphylliidae Vaughan & Wells, 1943

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 138

Family Agathiphylliidae Vaughan & Wells, 1943

Diagnosis. Solitary and colonial. Colony formation by extratentacular budding. Corallite wall synapticulothecal near calice, septothecal or parathecal below. Septocostae more or less confluent between calices. Septa of lower cycles composed of two fan systems of mostly compound trabeculae; higher cycles with one fan system, frequently perforate along inner ends; upper margins with acute transverse dentations. Inner fan system usually projecting as paliform lobes. Columella composed of twisted trabecular processes, well developed. Endothecal and exothecal dissepiments abundant, vesicular.