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Manicina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Octocorallia
    Order:  
Scleractinia
    Suborder:  
Favina
    Superfamily:  
Faviicae
    Family:  
Faviidae
    Subfamily:  
Faviinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Manicina EHR., 1834
    Type Species:  
Madrepora areolata LINNE, 1758; SD M.Eow.-H., 1850]


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Fossil Image
Fig. 299,1. *M. areolata, Rec., Fla.; X0.75 (201)


Synonyms

Podasteria


Geographic Distribution

W.Indies-Fla.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Mio.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Aquitanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
23.04
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Like Teleiophyllia but with forking and branching of series and development of ambulacra.




References



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