Scolymia lacera

(Pallas, 1766)

Holotype: lost no number; Recent; unspecified, West Indies.

Morphologic Description:

Morphologic Description: solitary, attached; parathecate, no epitheca; irregular attenuate or triangular septal dentition.

Morphologic Diagnosis: Colony Form: solitary, Colony Shape: massive, Budding: none, Columella: trabecular and discontinuous, Corallite Size: huge (> 20mm), Wall Structure: parathecal, Lobes: none.

(C) NMB.	Specimen details: Image Description: Figured USNM 47639 Image view: calice. Locality: : more information required. Remarks: figured (Cairns 1982). - Enlarge Image -
(C) NMB.	Specimen details: Image Description: figured USNM 47639 Image view: bottom. Locality: : more information required. Remarks: figured Cairns 1982. - Enlarge Image -

Late Pliocene, Bowden Formation. Bowden Shell Beds, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Late Pliocene, Hope Gate Formation. Rio Bueno, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Moin Formation. Lomas del Mar, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Early Pleistocene, Manchioneal Formation. Manchioneal Harbor, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Early Pleistocene, Manchioneal Formation. Navy Island, Jamaica, central Caribbean.