Lophophyllidium

noun

Loph·​o·​phyl·​lid·​i·​um

: a genus (sometimes made the type of a family Lophophyllidiidae) of tetracorals common and widely distributed in central North American Upper Carboniferous formations

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from loph- + phyll- + -idium

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