Negoporites Eliasova , 1989

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

Negoporites Eliasova, 1989

Type species.

Porites michelini Reuss, 1846.

Description.

Plocoid colony. Corallite outline circular, corallites small (generally below 3 mm in diameter). Septa irregularly perforated. Symmetry of septa bilateral. Septal cycles differ in length, but hardly at all in thickness. Septa of younger cycles often and regularly connected to the septa of preceding cycles. Not well-separated pali irregularly present. Costae non-confluent. Synapticulae fairly common, mainly in the wall. Columella small, substyliform. Endotheca consists of numerous thin tabulae. Wall subcompact, synapticulothecal. Coenosteum moderately broad, consists of trabeculae and tabulae.