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I.—On Some New or Imperfectly Known Madreporaria from the Inferior Oolite of Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Dorsetshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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In the thirty-eighth volume of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society is a paper by me on the Corals of the Inferior Oolite, and in the following volume is one on the Corals of the Great Oolite. The forty-first volume of the same periodical contains a supplement to the latter, but to the former no such addition has yet been made. The present communication makes good that deficiency, and is a supplement to it. It contains, besides the description of some new species, additional remarks on others already known, mention of genera about which doubt has been expressed, and the description of one which I consider new. Another genus, Stephanocænia, though well known elsewhere, has up to the present time remained unrecognized as British, and is now introduced on the evidence of two well-marked species from the Inferior Oolite of Gloucestershire. The addition to our Coral fauna of such genera as the above, and of others equally well known which I have also had the opportunity of making known, is of even greater interest than the discovery of new genera and species. Epismilia, Donacosmilia, Cyathophyllia, Adelastræa, Stylosmilia, Rhizangia, Thecoseris, Zeptophyllia, and Enallohelia, form a valuable contribution towards the Coral fauna of this country.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1886

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References

page 389 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 591.

page 389 note 2 Proceed. Geol. Assoc. 1885, p. 198.

page 395 note 1 I think it right to suggest the possibility of this and some other Montlivaltiæ having wavy and everted margins, being merely the peduncles of a compound genus. The abnormal septa of the present species, as well as the excessively numerous ones of the species from the Middle Lias of Charmouth which I have described under the name of Monlivaltia foliacea, may prove to be costal prolongations of the septa in progress of development preparatory to gemmation.

page 395 note 2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xvii. p. 9, 1860Google Scholar.