A monograph of the British fossil corals - kreidefossilien.de
A monograph of the British fossil corals - kreidefossilien.de
A monograph of the British fossil corals - kreidefossilien.de
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BRITISH FOSSIL CORALS.<br />
4. Genus Sarcodictyon.<br />
E. Forbes ap. Johnston, Brit. Zooph., 2d ed., p. 1"9.<br />
Polypi rising from creeping, filiform, anastomosing stolons, distant, uniserial, and<br />
appearing verruciform (not tubular) when retracted. Differ from Cornularia by <strong>the</strong> shortness<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> polypidoms.<br />
Typ. sp., Sarcodictyon catenatum, Forbes, loc. cit., tab. xxxiii, figs. 4, 7.<br />
5. Genus An<strong>the</strong>lia.<br />
Savigny, ap. Lamarck, Ah. sans Verteb., vol. ii, p. 407, 1816.<br />
Polypi not retractile,<br />
and rising from a thin fleshy incrustating plate.<br />
Typ. sp., An<strong>the</strong>lia glauca, Savigny, Egypte, Polypes, tab. i, fig. 7.<br />
6. Genus Stmpodium.<br />
Ehrenberg, Corall., p. 61, 1834.<br />
Polypi resembling An<strong>the</strong>lia, but being retractile.<br />
Typ. sp., Sympodiicm fuliginomm, Ehrenb., Savigny, Egypte, Polypes, tab. i, fig. 6.<br />
7. Genus Aulopora.<br />
Goldfuss, Petref. Germ., vol. i, p. 82.<br />
The <strong>fossil</strong> <strong>corals</strong> forming this genus greatly resemble Cornularia and Sarcodictyon, but<br />
differ from all <strong>the</strong> preceding genera by <strong>the</strong>ir thick, calcareous polypidom.<br />
Typ. sp., Aulopora serpens, Goldfuss, loc. cit., tab. x.xix, fig. 1.<br />
8. Genus Cladochonus.<br />
M'Uoy, in Ann. and Mag. <strong>of</strong> Nat. Hist. 1st series, vol. .xx, p. 227.<br />
CoraUum resembling Aulopora, but composed <strong>of</strong> cup-shaped calices, arranged in a<br />
regularly alternate manner, and bent in nearly opposite du-ections.<br />
Typ. sp., Cladochonus tenuicollis, M'Coy, loc. cit., tab. xi. fig. 8.