Montlivaltia Lamouroux, 1821

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie Christine, Tschanz, Karl & KÜrsteiner, Peter, 2022, Scleractinian corals from the Lower Cretaceous of the Alpstein area (Anthozoa; Vitznau Marl; lower Valanginian) and a preliminary comparison with contemporaneous coral assemblages, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (3) 141 (1), pp. 1-61 : 23

Genus Montlivaltia Lamouroux, 1821

Type species. Montlivaltia caryophyllata Lamouroux, 1821 , Middle Jurassic (Upper Bathonian) of Calvados .

Diagnosis. Solitary, trochoid to subcylindrical, or turbinate, rarely (subdiscoidal-) patellate. Costosepta compact, thin to thick, exsert, in general numerous and crowded. Columella absent. Intertrabecular distance ranging between 200 and 1300 µm. Endothecal dissepiments abundant, vesicular. Epitheca sensu lato membraniform or absent.