Dasmosmilia
Pourtales, 1880, p. 108
Type Species
Parasmilia lymani Pourtalès, 1871, p. 20, pl. 6, figs. 1-3, 8-9; Subsequent Designation Wells, 1933, p. 221 (139)
Type Specimen: Syntype; MCZ 5625, 5469; Verified; Dry Preserved
Type Locality: Recent: Strait of Florida, 128-269 m.
49 syntypes. Type species best described by Cairns (1979)
Classification
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Corallum solitary, turbinate to trochoid, free (usually the result of parricidal budding from a wedge of parent corallum; elongate delicate multiple paliform lobes on septa of all but last cycle; columella trabecular.
Remarks
One fossil and three Recent species.
This page has been in preparation since 08-Oct-2008 15:21
This version was contributed by Stephen D. Cairns on 03-Nov-2008 17:26.
Page authors are: Stephen D. Cairns Rosemarie Baron-Szabo. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Stephen D. Cairns
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