DESCRIPTION 
OF 
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 Palzontologist ; 
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 Chetetes ; and we are, 
therefore, inclined to class them in that generical division: the two other species probably 
_ belong to the family of the Stauride, and, in our opinion, form part of a small genus that 
Professor King had, in 1849, very properly proposed establishing under the name of 
Polycelia, but has abandoned since that time. 
Family FAVOSITID i, (Introduction, p. |x.) 
Genus Cumtetes, (Introduction, p. 1x1.) 
1. Cuareres? Macxkrorat. 
Catamopora Macxrorut, Geinitz, Grund., p. 582, 1846. 
SraNOPORA INDEPENDENS, King, Catal. of the Organic Remains of the Permian Rocks, 
p- 6, 1848. 
—_ crassa, Howse, Trans. of the Tyneside Nat. Field Club, vol. i, p. 260, 1848, 
(not Lonsdale ?). 
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