Cryptocoenia d’Orbigny, 1849

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D4564419-3213-4D38-96BB-E7CFE157E0F8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13306338

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scientific name

Cryptocoenia d’Orbigny, 1849
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Type species.

Astrea alveolata Goldfuss, 1826

Description.

Plocoid colony. Corallite outline circular. Symmetry of septa radial and regularly hexameral or decameral. Septa very short, free. Pali or paliform lobes absent. Costae present, sub-confluent to non - confluent. Columella absent. Endotheca consists of regular tabulae and occasional dissepiments. Wall compact, as tabulotheca. Coenosteum moderately broad, consists of costae and tabulae.