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KADIOPORID^. 
Diagnosis. 
Zoarium sub- dendroid, or tufted; it grows either in numerous 
short branches from a broad base, with the branches 
bifurcating occasionally, or as cylindrical branches, which 
may either give off above many sub-branches or expand 
distally into irregular lobes ; or the main stem may expand 
into a thickened body giving off above small cylindrical 
stems. Sides marked by annular constrictions. 
The end consists of a group of crowded, irregularly arranged 
zooecia, surrounded by the radial series, which pass into the 
vertical marginal series. 
Dimensions. 
Goldfuss’ 
pi. XXX. fig. 12. 
Simonowitsch. 
mm. 
mm. 
Height of zoarium 
13 
19 
Width of zoarium 
about 15 
25 
Diameter of a branch .. . 
... about 1-75-3-5 
5 
Distribution. 
British : 
Tipper Greensand: Warminster, and Chute Farm, near Warminster, Wilts. 
Zone of Schicenbachia rostrata : The Cutting, Black 
Yen, Charmouth. 
Foreign : 
Cenomanian : Essen. 
Lower Quader : Plauen, Saxony. 
Affinities. 
This species has to be renamed, for it is part of the Ceriopora 
stellata of Goldfuss, and it is the part which he figured and 
described in 1829 ; his name has to be retained for the species to 
which he applied it in 1827, which is a Lichenopora (see p. 252). 
Von Deuss has referred to this species a' small Miocene 
(Leithakalk) and Oligocene fossil, which he subsequently trans- 
ferred to Radiopora and named R. goldfussi^^ as he recognized its 
specific distinction from Romopora stellata. 
The species was subsequently described by Manzoni (1878) 
from the Austrian Miocene, but his figure shows that this Miocene 
fossil is very different from the Cretaceous species. Romopora 
^ A. E. von Keuss. Foram. Anth. Bry. deut. Sept. : Denk. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 
vol. XXV. (1866), p. 200, pi. x. figs. 11, 12. 
