Cryptocoenia d'Orbigny , 1849

Loeser, 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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796

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scientific name

Cryptocoenia d'Orbigny , 1849
status

 

Cryptocoenia d'Orbigny, 1849

Type species.

Astrea alveolata Goldfuss, 1826

Description.

Plocoid colony. Corallite outline circular. Symmetry of septa radial and regularly hexameral or decameral. Septa very short, free. Pali or paliform lobes absent. Costae present, sub-confluent to non-confluent. Columella absent. Endotheca consists of regular tabulae and occasional dissepiments. Wall compact, as tabulo-theca. Coenosteum moderately broad, consists of costae and tabulae.