Pocillopora baracoaensis Vaughan, 1919.


CC species number = 14

Synonyms: None.

Morphologic Description:

Colony Form: plocoid
Colony Shape: branching
Colony Size: branches < 1cm thick
Budding Type: mostly extramural
Corallite Diameter: <0.8 mm
Calical Relief: shallow
Coenosteum Width: 0.7 mm
Septa Per Corallite:12
Lobes: none
Columella Structure: none
Wall Structure: septothecal

Holotype: USNM 324783 (USGS locality 3476: Baracoa, Cuba. Late Pliocene).

Distribution:

Late Miocene: Gurabo Formation, Dominican Republic.
Late Pliocene: La Cruz Marl, Cuba.
Plio-Pleistocene: Matanzas, Cuba.