Meandrophyllia d’Orbigny, 1849

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 121

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1175­5334

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scientific name

Meandrophyllia d’Orbigny, 1849
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Genus Meandrophyllia d’Orbigny, 1849 View in CoL

(= Meandraraea Étallon, 1859 , Type species. M. gresslyi Étallon, 1859 , Jurassic of France);

(= Uxacalcaraea Alloiteau, 1957 , Type species. U. heberti Alloiteau, 1957 , Turonian of France);

(= Michelinaraea Alloiteau, 1957 , Type species. Meandrina ataciana Michelin, 1846 , Upper Santonian of France).

Type species. Meandrina lotharinga Michelin, 1843 , Upper Jurassic of France (Meuse) .

Diagnosis. Colonial, massive to lamellar, meandroid. Gemmation intracalicinal. Corallites isolated or arranged in short, wavy calicinal series. Series separated by tholiform to tectiform collines. Costosepta confluent to subconfluent, perforated. Columella spongy-papillose. Synapticulae present. Wall synapticulothecal, incomplete.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Haplaraeidae

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