Astreopora Blainville, 1830.

Mophologic Description: Plocoid; extensive porous coenosteum; massive with solid corallite walls; sometimes with columella.

Species:

A. goethalsi Vaughan, 1919

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Photograph: Scale bar is approx. 0.5 cm. Specimen SUI 63830 (Locality: Cercado Formation, Arroyo Bellaco, Dominican Republic.)

Synonyms: None.

Morphologic Description: Branching, branches > 2.0 cm thick; corallite diameter 1.5-2.0 mm; corallite spacing 0.5-1.5 mm; 24 septa.

Holotype: YPM 4309 (Locality: unknown, probably Indo-Pacific. Recent.) Distribution: late Early Miocene: Emperador Limestone, Panama.

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