Oculina Lamarck, 1816

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., Schlagintweit, Felix & Rashidi, Koorosh, 2023, Coral fauna across the Cretaceous- Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (7) 142 (1), pp. 1-49 : 22

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scientific name

Oculina Lamarck, 1816
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Genus Oculina Lamarck, 1816 View in CoL

Type species. Oculina virginea Lamarck, 1816 , Atlantic Ocean, Holocene (subsequent designation by Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850).

Diagnosis. Colonial; dendroid, ramose ‒ dendroid, encrusting, reptoid, and irregularly massive. Ramose ‒ dendroid colonies formed by alternate extracalicular budding with corallites found on all sides of branches. Costae present or absent. Coenosteum dense, striated (non ‒ costate) or smooth. Pali before S1 and S 2 in a crown that appears rather regular in small ‒ size corallites (up to around 4 mm), becoming more irregular with increase in corallite size. Columella spongy, papillose, made of a small number of twisted segments, or absent. Endothecal dissepiments sparse or absent. Ahermatypic and hermatypic. Zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate species.

Lamarck, J. B. P. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres (p. 568). Paris: Verdiere.

Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. (1850). A monograph of the British fossil corals (1). Tertiary and Cretaceous. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, 3, i - lxxxv, 1 - 71, pls. 1 - 11.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Oculinidae