heterocoral

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noun

A coral from the extinct Paleozoic order Heterocorallia.

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Meanings

nounheterocoral (plural heterocorals)

plural heterocorals

  1. A coral from the extinct Paleozoic order Heterocorallia.

    Heterocoral apparently descended unsuccessfully from Rugosa.

    2013, W.J. Frazier, D.R. Schwimmer, Regional Stratigraphy of North America, page 183
    1 more example

    The presumed oldest heterocoral is Tetraphyllia devonica (Yoh, Jin, Zhen & Xie, 1984) from the Lower Devonian (Late Emsian) of Yunnan, southern China.

    2002, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie: Abhandlungen
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