Original description of Turbinoaoris grand is : 
"The corallum is short, very broad, and compressed, and 
has a sharp peduncle. 
The calice is elliptical in outline; and its margin is not 
quite horizontal, but is thick. 
The fossa is shallow. 
The septa are numerous, crowded, alternately large and 
small, and the larger end internally with swollen terminations 
along an axial space. There are five cycles, and a few septa of 
the sixth, in six systems. All are joined by numerous synapticu- 
lae and the smaller septa join the larger occasionally. 
The costae are subequal, broad, close, and swollen at the 
junction of the numerous synapt iculae . 
The epi theca exists in some specimens. 
Usually the wall is much worn around the jjeduncle. 
Height of corallum 23 mm. Length of calice 28 mm. breadth 
18 mm 
