Madracis cf.herricki



Holotype: PRI 3784 (Texas, Eocene).


Morphologic Description:
Colony Form: plocoid to subcerioid
Colony Shape: branching and nodular
Budding Type: mostly extramural
Corallite Diameter: 2.0-3.0 mm
Coenosteum Width: 0.4-0.9 mm
Septa Per Corallite: 10 primary septa and 10 secondary septa that do not attach to columella, but are rudimentary nubs along edge of calyx,
Lobes: none
Columella Structure: styliform
Columella Development: broad
Wall Structure: septothecal

Synonyms: none

Photograph: Scale Bar is approx. 1 cm. Image is of holotype (PRI 3784).

 

 

 

 

 

Photograph: Scale Bar is 1.0 mm. Image is specimen NMB a80-3t. (Dominican Republic, Pliocene).

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution:

Late Early Pliocene: Mao Formation, Dominican Republic.





Last updated on 29 June 2004 - has