Bathycyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848c
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D500792E-FFC8-8308-FCAD-FDFCFA8FFC74 |
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Felipe |
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Bathycyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848c |
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Genus Bathycyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848c View in CoL
Type species. Bathycyathus chilensis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848c , Holocene , Pacific Ocean (off the coast of Chile) .
Diagnosis. Turbinate or variably conical, fixed or free when solitary, forming phaceloid clumps by basal budding or parricidal intracalicular budding when colonial. Corallites often circular in outline in juvenile stages, becoming compressed in later ontogenetic stages. Costosepta laminar, compact. Septal margins smooth or nearly smooth. Pali not distinct from columellar laths. Columella formed by twisted trabecular segments. Endothecal dissepiments few in number. Wall septothecal, septoparathecal when not properly thickened.
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