tubiporite

English

Etymology

tubipore +‎ -ite

Noun

tubiporite (plural tubiporites)

1. (paleontology) Any fossil coral of the genus †Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.

Further reading

• tubiporite at Paleobiology Database

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tubiporite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)