Solitary Corals

GAULT SOLITARY CORALS

Suborder CARYOPHYLLIINA Vaughan & Wells, 1943

Superfamily CARYOPHYLLIICAE Gray, 1847

Family CARYOPHYLLIIDAE Gray, 1847

Eight specimens from Folkestone

	Subfamily: THECOCYATHINAE Vaughan & Wells 1943 Discocyathus fittoni ? *Bed VII - Euhoplites lautus* Zone**
	Subfamily: THECOCYATHINAE Vaughan & Wells 1943 Discocyathus fittoni (? Edwards) Beach collected
	Subfamily: CARYOPHYLLIINAE Gray, 1847 *? Trochocyathus harveyanus* Edwards & Haime Beach collected**
	Subfamily: CARYOPHYLLIINAE Gray, 1847 *? Trochocyathus harveyanus* Edwards & Haime Beach collected**
	Subfamily: CARYOPHYLLIINAE Gray, 1847 ? Trochocyathus conulus Beach collected
	Subfamily: CARYOPHYLLIINAE Gray, 1847 ? Trochocyathus angulatus Beach collected
	Subfamily: CARYOPHYLLIINAE Gray, 1847 ? Paracyathus sp *Bed IV (i) - Euhoplites loricatus* Zone; Dipoloceroides subdelaruei Subzone**
	Subfamily: CARYOPHYLLIINAE Gray, 1847 ? Paracyathus sp *Bed I - Hoplites dentatus* Zone; Hoplites spathi Subzone**

Site:

Folkestone, KENT, UK

Albian Stage:

Middle Albian

References:

a. Bayer F.M. et. al. 1956. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology - Part F COELENTERATA

b. British Mesozoic Fossils. 1983 Sixth Edition; HMSO

c. Price F.G.S. 1879. The Gault

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