Text-book of palaeontology / by Karl A. von Zittel ; translated and edited by Charles R. Eastman.

  • Karl Alfred von Zittel
Date:
1900
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    Fio. 145. Isastraea hclianthoUles, Goldf. sp. Coral-Rag; Nattheim. Natural size. Plesiaslraea, From. Like the preceding, but witli several pali in front of all the cycles excepting the last. Tertiary and Recent. a Isastraea, E. and H. (Fig. 145) . Corallites prismatic, closely crowded, and with ' fused walls. Calices poly- gonal; columella imperfect IJBlafiSa^Wvftx J or absent. Trias to Cre- taceous. Latimaeandra, d’Orb. (Fig. 146) . Like the preceding, but with the calices situated in short furrows. Trias to Cretaceous. Slylastraea, From. Lias. Amphiastraea, From. Upper Jurassic. Leptastraea, Solen- nstraea, Prionastraea, E. and H., etc. Tertiary and Recent. (. Massive coralla mnltiplying by fission. Fm. 144. Fm. 140. Fach, Oken (Fig. 147). Corallum massive; calices oval or distorted, and united llelinstraea conoiden, Reuss. Miocene; Enzesfeld, near Vienna, a, Corallum, natural size ; b} Calices enlarged. Lnt imacandra scriata, Beck. Coral-Rag; Natt- heim. Natural size (after Becker). by confiuent costal septa; columella spongy. Jurassic to Recent. Goniastraea, E. and H. Corallites prismatic, calices polygonal. Septa well Fm. 147. Fti tritt caryophyllo kies, From. Coral-Rag; Natt- heim. Natural size. Fio. 14S. Calamopht/llia Stokesi, E. and H. Coral-Rag; Steeple Ashton, England. Natural size. Fm. 149. Thecosniilia trichotoma, Goldf. sp. Coral-Rag; Natt- heim. Natural size. developed; columella spongy 3 pali in front of all cycles excepting the last. Cretaceous to Recent. i]. Brandung coralla mnltiplying by fission. Calamophyllia, Blainv. (Rhabdophyllia, E. and H.; Lithodendron, p. p. Mich.), (Fig. 148). Golony fasciculate or bushy3 corallites very long, cylindrical.