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Favosites
Favosites, the honeycomb coral, is an extinct cerioid tabulate coral genus named by Lamarck in 1816, type species F. gothlandicus, with polygonal corallites linked by mural pores, Silurian-Devonian reef habitats, and calcite skeletons.
Halysites
Halysites, the chain coral, is an extinct Silurian tabulate coral genus (family Halysitidae) whose oval corallites form chain-like ranks enclosing lacunae, separated by diagnostic tubules; cosmopolitan Silurian reef former tolerant of muddy water.
Heliolites
Heliolites is an extinct colonial tabulate coral, type genus of the family Heliolitidae, named by James Dwight Dana in 1846 and sometimes called the "sun coral" for its sunburst-like colonies.
Pleurodictyum
Pleurodictyum (type species P. problematicum) is an extinct Goldfuss 1829 genus of discoid colonial tabulate corals, family Micheliniidae, from Upper Silurian to Middle Devonian marine rocks across Europe, North America, Australia, Asia, and North Africa.
Syringopora
Syringopora (organ-pipe coral) is an extinct Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral genus of loose, bush-like calcite tube colonies, order Auloporida, family Syringoporidae, living Ordovician to Permian and extinct at the end-Permian crisis.