Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Beauvais L. (1986). Monographie des madréporaires du Jurassique inférieur du Maroc. <em>Palaeontographica (A).</em> 194 (1/3): 1–68. [details]
additional source
Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]
source of synonymy
Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
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Comparison Phacelophyllia differs from Thecactinastraea by its anastomosing septa. [details]
Description Phaceloid corallum. Calices subcircular to subpolygonal in outline. Epitheca s.l. present, costae absent. Mode of increase unknown. Radial elements probably subcompact, anastomosed, with rather parallel lateral faces (but small septa attenuated), rather straight unequal in length and thickness. Distal edge not observed, inner edge with detached trabecules, lateral faces probably pennular. Hexameral symmetry probable with anastomoses according to cycles (but only one calice deciphered), bilateral symmetry not observed. Endotheca not observed. Center of the corallite filled with detached trabeculae of S1-S2 septa, synapticule present, wall present at the periphery of the calyx, of an unknown nature. [details]
Remark L. Beauvais (1986) described the mode of budding as intracalicular marginal. I cannot confirm or invalidate this observation. Three nominal species known in Jurassic [details]
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