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MULTELEA. 
MULiTELEA, d’Orbigny, 1853. 
[Bit. Cret. p. 643.] 
SYNONY:krs. 
Cricopora, pars, Michelin, 1840. 
Escharifes, pars, Romer, 1840. 
Yaginoporu, pars, von Ilagenow. 1846. 
(I’Orbigny, 1853; Pergens, 1890. 
Dfagxosis. 
Eleidse with a multilamellar zoaiium of erect cylindrical 
branches. Xo avicularia present. 
Type Species. 
2Iidtelea magnijica, Orb. Senonian : France. (This species may 
be accepted as the type as it is the best figured and the commonest.) 
Multelea magnifica, d’Orbigny, 1853. 
SY^mNYMY. 
21ultelea magnijica, d’Orbigny, 1853. Bry. Cret. p. 649, pi. 740. 
,, ,, Hamm, 1881. Bry. mastr. Ober-Sen. p. 46. 
,, ,, Bucaille, 1890. Bry. Seine-Inf. : Bull. Soc. Sci. nat. 
Rouen, vol. xxv. p. 511. 
Meliceritltes ,, Pergens, 1890. Revision, p. 397. 
,, ,, Pergens, 1893. Bry. St. Pat. ; Bull. Soc. beige Geol. 
vol. vi., Pr. Vb. p. 211. 
,, ,, Pergens, 1895. Bry. Arche de Leves : vol. viii., Pr. Vb. 
p. 138. 
,, ,, Pergens, 1895. Bry. Cacliemb. : ibid. vol. viii., Pr. Vb. 
p. 182. ‘ - 
Diagnosis. 
Zoarium of thick, dichotomous branches. 
Apertures triangular; in transverse series. “Between most 
of the zooecia are the orifices of the ovicells, particularly 
numerous in this species” (Pergens). 
Distbibution. 
Senonian — Haastricbtian : Sainte-Colombe, Mancbe ; Royan, Charente- 
Inferieure. 
Santonian : Saintes, etc., Charente-Inferieure ; L’ Arche de 
Leves and Cachembach, near Chartres. 
