Vol. 69.] THE GEXTTS AVLOPHYLLVM. 53 



[13];i906. CyclopJiyllum Vaughax, A. "The Carboniferous 



Limestone Series (Avonian) of the 

 Avon Gorge ' Proc. Bristol Nat. Soc. 

 ser. 4, vol. i, p. 14-6. 



[14] 1909. Aulopliyllum Caerutheks, R. G. ' A Carboniferous 



Fauna from Novaya Zemlya collected 

 by Dr. W. S. Bruce, by G. W. Lee ; 

 with Notes on the Corals by R. G. 

 Carruthers' Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. 

 vol. xlvii, p. 149. 



JVon 



1808. Fungites Parkinson, J. ' Organic Remains of a 



Former World ' vol. ii, ] . 120. 



1836. Twrhinolia fungites Phillips, J. 'Illustrations of the 



Geology of Yorkshire ' pt. 2, p. 203 & 

 pi. ii, tig. 23. 



1842-44. Cyatliopliyttum fangites . Koninck, L. G. de. 'Description des 

 Animaux Fossiles qui se trouveut 

 dans le Terrain Carbonifere de Bel- 

 gique'p. 24&pl. D, fig. 2. 



1843. Cyatliopliyllum fung it es Poetlock, J.E. ' Report on the Geology 



of Londonderry, & of parts of Tyrone 

 & Fermanagh ' p. 328. 



(2) Summary of the Work of Previous Authors. 



The genotype of AulojpJiyllum was figured and described by David 

 TJre in 1793 as Fangites \ l]. 1 The name Fungites was originally 

 given by Martini to a Halysites-like form, Fungites eatenulatus, in 

 1765. 2 In 1828 Fleming assigned Ure's form to the genus Tur- 

 hinolia [2] of Lamarck 3 (an aporose form), and used '■Fungites' 

 in the specific sense ; hence to him must be credited the authorship 

 of the species fungites. Geinitz, in 1846, transferred the species to 

 the genus Cyatliopliyllum [5] of Goldfuss. 1 M'Coy, in 1849, de- 

 scribed some specimens of the coral in the Woodwardian Museum, 

 Cambridge, and referred them to Dana's 5 genus Clisiophyllum, 

 naming them Clisiophyllum prolapsum [6~j. Milne Edwards & 

 Haime took M'Coy's species as the genotype of their new genus 

 Aulophyllum [7] in 1850, and described it as follows, [7] p. lxx: — 



' Coi-allum simple. Septa well developed. A double mural investment; the 

 interior wall dividing the visceral chamber into two portions — one central and 

 columnar, the other exterior and annular. No columella. Tabula; but little 

 developed.' 



M'Coy objected to the establishment of the new genus in his next 

 publication (1854) [9] on the grounds that its characters were 



1 Numerals in square brackets refer to the papers enumerated in the fore- 

 going bibliography. 

 v 2 F. H. W. Martini, Berl. Mag. vol. i, p. 268 & pi. i, fig. 4. 



3 «T. B. P. A. de M. Lamarck, 'Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans 

 Vertebres' vol. ii (1816) p. 230. 



4 A. Goldfuss, 'Petrefacta Germanise' (1826) p. 54. 



5 J. D. Dana, 'Zoophytes: U.S. Exploring Expedition' vol. vii (1846) 

 pp. 361-62 & pi. xxvi, figs. 6-7. 



