Haplaraeidae Vaughan & Wells, 1943

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie Christine, Tschanz, Karl & KÜrsteiner, Peter, 2022, Scleractinian corals from the Lower Cretaceous of the Alpstein area (Anthozoa; Vitznau Marl; lower Valanginian) and a preliminary comparison with contemporaneous coral assemblages, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (3) 141 (1), pp. 1-61 : 25

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Haplaraeidae Vaughan & Wells, 1943
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Family Haplaraeidae Vaughan & Wells, 1943 View in CoL Genus Actinaraea d’Orbigny, 1849

Type species. Agaricia granulata Münster , in Goldfuss , 1829, Upper Jurassic of Germany (Nattheim) .

Diagnosis. Colonial, massive, folios, thamnasterioid, including ploco- to cerio-thamnasterioid. Budding intracalicular (-marginal). Corallites embedded in a coenosteum that is generally porous to reticulate. Costosepta few in number with irregular perforations, septal flanks granular. No paliform structures. Columella generally feebly developed, parietal, lamellar, substyliform. Synapticulae present. Intertrabecular distance ranging between 80 and 180 µm. Endothecal dissepiments thin, tabulate. Wall absent or incomplete synapticulothecal.

Subgenus. Camptodocis Dietrich, 1926 View in CoL (Type species. C. brancai Dietrich, 1926 View in CoL , Barremian–lower Aptian of Tanzania): Having the characteristics of Actinaraea View in CoL but calices are not independent from perithecal colony tissue (similar as in Actinacis View in CoL ), corallites therefore with variably ploco- to cerio-thamnasterioid integration types.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Haplaraeidae

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