Heliopora de Blainville, 1830

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

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scientific name	Heliopora de Blainville, 1830
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Type species.

Millepora coerulea Pallas, 1766

Description.

The genus forms small spheric, fingerlike or incrusting colonies. The corallites are circular and very regular. The septa are short. The coenosteum appears cellular with very fine pores and tiny spines, or is rarely vermiculate.

Remarks.

As explained in Hernández Morales and Löser (2018), the genus Polytremacis is a junior synonym of the extant genus Heliopora . The corallite dimensions of the species of the study area are compared in Table 1 View Table 1 .