. Bulletins of American paleontology. 243 Neav CORAL Genera: Wells The internal structure, especially of the parathecal wall, is hown in text figure I, taken from the Figure 1. AccmtJiophyllia deshayensiana (Mich.) A vertical section across a radius of the shorter diameter, showing paratheca. xl. Another species of Acanthophyllia is Lithophyllia ampla Reuss2 of the Miocene of Lapugy (Roumania). Reuss's figure shows shreds of an epitheca encircling' the corallum, as do also the recent specimens from the Philippines, hut no continuous epithecal deposit, such as is found in Antilla, wa
. Bulletins of American paleontology. 243 Neav CORAL Genera: Wells The internal structure, especially of the parathecal wall, is hown in text figure I, taken from the Figure 1. AccmtJiophyllia deshayensiana (Mich.) A vertical section across a radius of the shorter diameter, showing paratheca. xl. Another species of Acanthophyllia is Lithophyllia ampla Reuss2 of the Miocene of Lapugy (Roumania). Reuss's figure shows shreds of an epitheca encircling' the corallum, as do also the recent specimens from the Philippines, hut no continuous epithecal deposit, such as is found in Antilla, was formed. Several names have been applied to solitary mussoid corals, hut most of them have been based upon the monostomatous stage of colonial forms. Scolymia Haime 1852^ (Lithophyllia Edwards & Haime 1857)4 includes the early stages of the West Indian colonial genus Mussa. Antillia Duncan 1863', the genotype of which is J. dentata Duncan of the West Indian Miocene (select- ed by de Fromentel in 1867), was almost certainly the direct pre- decessor of Mussa and a strictly solitary form with much smaller septal teeth than Acanthophyllia and a well-developed epitheca. Syzygophyllia Reuss i86o'\ based upon a species (.V. brevis) from ~1>> Hi,-. .//,-. Wiss. Wien., .\\xi, 231, pi. n, t 2, 2a. 1871. sMSm. Sac gSol. France, iv, 279 (footnote). iHist. Nat. Coral]., ii, 290. 5Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, xx, 28. >>Sitz. AJc. Wiss. Wicn., xxxix, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Paleontological Research Institution (Ithaca, N. Y. ); Columbia University. Ithaca, N. Y. , Paleontological Research Institution [etc. ]
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