NO. 1401. GENERA OF SIMPLE FUNGID CORALS— VAUGHAN. 413 



after projecting there, become exsertand pass to the axial space where 

 thev meet. There is a hirg-e, prominent, primary septum in each 

 mass. The calicuhir wall is invisible. The sjmapticuhie are broad 

 and nmiierous." 



Type species. — Gonloserls (nxjtdata Duncan. Brit. foss. Corals, Sup., 

 Pt. 3, p. 21, pi. VII, figs. 1-5. 



Disfrihutfo/i. — Jurassic, Inferior Oolitic, Cloughton W3'ke, near 

 Scarborough, England. 



Rejimrhs. — Duncan does not give any detailed information regard- 

 ing the character of the wall or the structure of the septa. His figure 

 (Plate VII, fig. 5) of G. auijiilata represents the septa as solid. The 

 type species of this genus needs a thorough investigation. 



4. Genus EPISTREPTOPH YLLUM Milaschewitz. 



1876. EimtnptopJujlliua Milaschewitz, Pal?eontograpliica, XXI, i>. I'll. 



Original generic diagnosis. — "' Gorallum simple, conical or cylin- 

 drical, firmly attached to some object, columella well developed, spongy. 

 Calice excavated, septa numerous, not exsert. Outer surface of the 

 wall covered with equal ribs. Low down in the interseptal loculi 

 besides endothecal dissepiments are numerous synapticula; in the 

 upper part numerous pointed or wart-shaped granulations occur on 

 the septal faces.'' 



Milaschewitz remarks: "This remarkable genus can ))e referred 

 either to the family Astrxldx or the Fwnglda^^ as it unites the charac- 

 teristic features of both families. In consequence of the presence of 

 synapticula it would belong to the Fungidse; because of the presence 

 of endothecal dissepiments, also because of its tall,, sometimes perfectly 

 cylindrical form and its excavated calice it appears more nearly related 

 to the Ast7'aeidse. However, according to the rows of granulations on 

 the septal faces being parallel to the free margins of the septa, instead 

 of being vertical as in the Fangld^,., the genus shows a greater rela- 

 tionship to the subfamily Fusmllinse., which liave septa with entire 

 margins, than with the subfamily Astraelnse., which have dentate septa 

 with vertical rows of granulations." 



Tyi^e species. — Three species are referred to EplstrepUyphylluni by 

 its author, E. commune Milaschewitz, E. cylindratnm Milaschewitz, 

 and E. ten:ue Milaschewitz, all from the Jurassic of Nattheim. No 

 species is designated as the geno-t3^pe, nor are the details of the struc- 

 ture of the wall or of the septa given. Without making a careful 

 study of Milaschewitz's original material it is not safe to designate 

 a type species. 



Eplstreptoj^hyUuni was made by Zittel" the type of his Epistrepto- 

 phyllinse., a subfamil}^ of the Astrseldee. 



«Handb. Palaontologie, I, 1880, p. 249, 

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