DESCRIPTION 



or 



THE BRITISH FOSSIL CORALS. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 CORALS FROM THE PERMIAN FORMATION. 



Very few Fossils belonging to the great Zoological group of Polypi have as yet been 

 discovered in the Permian Formation. Only five species have been met with in England ; 

 and we are entirely indebted to Professor William King for the knowledge of these 

 Corals. We have not been enabled to study them ourselves, and we must therefore beg 

 leave to lay before our readers the descriptions given by that distinguished Palaeontologist; 

 but in so doing, we deem it necessary to differ somewhat from the author of the valuable 

 'Monograph of the Permian Fossils of England' respecting the natural affinities of these 

 Zoophytes. The species referred by Professor King to the genera Calamopora, Stenopora, 

 and Alveolites, appear to have all the exterior characters of Chcetetes ; and we are, 

 therefore, inclined to class them in that generical division : the two other species probably 

 belong to the family of the Staurida, and, in our opinion, form part of a small genus that 

 Professor King had, in 1849, very properly proposed establishing under the name of 

 Polyccelia, but has abandoned since that time. 



Family FAVOSITID^E, {Introduction, p. lx.) 



Genus Chcetetes, {Introduction, p. lxi.) 



1. Chcetetes? Mackkothi. 



Calamopoka Mackrotiiii, Geinitz, Grand., p. 582, 1846. 



Stenopora independens, King, Catal. of the Organic Remains of the Permian Rocks, 



p. 6, 1848. 

 — CRASaA, Howse, Trans, of the Tyneside Nat. Field Club, vol. i, p. 260, 1848, 

 (not Lonsdale?). 



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