Cladocoroidea d’Orbigny, 1851

Löser, 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 : 89-147

Superfamily Cladocoroidea d’Orbigny, 1851

Description.

Solitary and (cerioid, phaceloid, plocoid) colonial corals. Septa compact and with regular thickness. Septal symmetry radial, regular or sub-regular. Septa often connected to each other. Septal lateral faces with thorns and / or granulae, septal upper margin with fine granulations. Lonsdaleoid septa and main septum absent. Microstructure of medium-sized trabeculae. Synapticulae absent. Pali present in some genera. Columella present in most genera, styliform, lamellar, parietal, or by septal fusion. Endotheca generally present. Marginarium absent. Wall present, septothecal (by septal thickening) or as tabulotheca. Coenosteum present in plocoid genera. Budding extracalicinal (cerioid, plocoid) or intracalicinal (phaceloid).