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Cladangia

Milne Edwards and Haime, 1851, p. 119

Type Species

Astraea semispherica Defrance, 1826, p. 380, no fig.; Monotypy

Type Specimen: Holotype; unknown; Lost; Dry Preserved

Type Locality: Miocene: France (Indre-et-Loire).

Type specimen lost (see Chevalier, 1961)

Classification

Diagnosis

Colonial, massive or subramose, plocoid. Gemmation extracalicinal, corallites united basally by striate or spinose coenosteum. Septa irregularly perforated, dentate laterally. Columella papillose. Endothecal dissepiments thin.

Comparisons

Like Astrangia, but corallum often massive with plocoid calice arrangement; coenosteum between corallites (peritheca) striate or spinose.

Remarks

About 6 species (Chevalier, 1961), only one of them Recent (see Pillai, 1967).

Contains

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This version was contributed by Stephen D. Cairns on 20-Nov-2008 20:17.

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The editor is: Stephen D. Cairns

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