Faksephyllia Floris, 1972

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Genus Faksephyllia Floris, 1972

Type species. Caryophyllia faxoensis Beck , in Lyell, 1837, Middle Danian of Denmark (Fakse limestone); neotype designation by Floris (1972, p. 76).

Diagnosis. Colonial, subdendroid, fasciculate or phaceloid. Budding intracalicular, generally distomodaeal; tristomodaeal condition in areas of intense budding possible. Budding by septal division with succeeding dichotomic forking of corallites in some calices. Costosepta compact, smooth or covered by small, rounded granules laterally; straight, free, and cuneiform, or irregularly fusing with neighboring ones in a fashion that resembles both dendrophylliid and micrabaciid septal arrangements. Costae short or absent. Pali, stereome, coenosteum, and synapticulae absent. Columella weakly to well developed, spongy ‒ papillose or formed by a small number of twisted segments, or absent. When absent, trabecular extensions of septal axial ends can form a pseudocolumella. Endothecal dissepiments thin, sparse, vesicular to subtabulate. Wall thin or thick, septothecal, septoparathecal, and parathecal. Epitheca s.l. present or absent.