Heterocoenioidea Oppenheim, 1930, 1982

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

Superfamily Heterocoenioidea Oppenheim, 1930

Description.

Solitary and colonial (cerioid, phaceloid, and plocoid) corals. Septa compact, thick, with ornamented lateral faces. Symmetry radial and bilateral. Lonsdaleoid septa may occur. Septal microstructure with small trabeculae, visible as a medium dark line. Synapticulae absent, pali absent. Columella rarely developed. Endotheca well-developed. Marginarium present in some genera. Wall trabecular or septothecal. Budding extracalicinal.