Tabulata

See also: tabulata

Translingual

polished section of Michelinia sp.

Etymology

From Latin tabulāta (“floored”), after the well-developed horizontal internal partitions (tabulae) within each cell and reduced or absent vertical internal partitions (septa).

Proper noun

†Tabulata

1. A taxonomic order within the class Anthozoa – tabulates: extinct corals that form colonies of individual hexagonal cells (corallites) forming a honeycomb skeleton.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Cnidaria - phylum; Anthozoa - class; Hexacorallia - subclass

Hyponyms

• (order): †Auloporida, †Favositida, †Heliolitida - suborders

References

• “Tabulata”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “Tabulata”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Tabulata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tabulata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Tabulata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Tabulata available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
• Tabulata at Paleobiology Database