Leptophyllaraea Alloiteau, 1952

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

Leptophyllaraea Alloiteau, 1952

Type species.

Leptophyllia granulata de Fromentel, 1863b.

Description.

Solitary cylindrical coral. Corallite outline elliptical, centre slightly depressed. Septa irregularly perforated, more common in the central part of the septal blade. Symmetry of septa irregular radial. Septa of younger generations are with their inner margins occasionally connected to septa of older generations. Synapticulae abundant. Columella absent or as some small elements, presumably trabecular extensions of septal inner margins.