Pleurophyllia De Fromentel, 1856

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 : 30

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Pleurophyllia De Fromentel, 1856
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Genus Pleurophyllia De Fromentel, 1856 View in CoL

Type species. Pleurophyllia trichotoma De Fromentel, 1856 View in CoL , Upper Jurassic of France (Mantoche) .

Diagnosis. Colonial, phaceloid. Budding intracalicinal. Septa compact, smooth laterally, arranged bilaterally. One major septum extends to the axial region of the corallite. Septal cycles indistinct. Costae and columella absent. Intertrabecular distance ranging between 90 and ca. 160 µm. Endothecal dissepiments thin. Multilamellate epithecal sensu lato wall possibly present.

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