The tabulate corals, forming the order Tabulata, are an extinct form of coral. They are almost always colonial, forming colonies of individual hexagonal cells known as corallites defined by a skeleton of calcite, similar in appearance to a honeycomb. Adjacent cells are joined by small pores. Their distinguishing feature is their well-developed hor...
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• (n. pl.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.
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major division of extinct coral animals found as fossils in Ordovician to Jurassic marine rocks (505 million to 144 million years old). Tabulata is ...
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Tab`u·la'ta noun plural [ New Latin , from Latin
tabulatus floored.]
(Zoology) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera
Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.
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