Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys Author Vasseur, Raphaël Université de Lorraine, CNRS, lab. GeoRessources, UMR 7359, BP 70239, F- 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy cedex (France) raphaelvasseur@wanadoo.fr Author Lathuilière, Bernard Université de Lorraine, CNRS, lab. GeoRessources, UMR 7359, BP 70239, F- 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy cedex (France) bernard.lathuiliere@univ-lorraine.fr text Geodiversitas 2021 2021-11-23 43 22 1187 1291 journal article 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 1638-9395 5764379 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6D1643AD-66A5-4678-9397-CE08E610D641 Genus Tubulosmilia n. gen. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 0B6B1523-7696-436C-9EAB-54F854ADBEAD TYPE SPECIES. — Tubulosmilia regularis n. sp. DIAGNOSIS. — Phaceloid corallum with cylindrical corallites that seems to reproduce by extracalicular budding. Radial elements are free or joined, often wavy septa of fluctuating width with inner edge generally swollen. The first cycles of septa are generally so enlarged that they link together into a ring that more or less completely encloses the lumen and separate it from the interseptal chambers. Endotheca made of tabular dissepiments and wall probably parathecal. An epitheca s.l . wraps the corallites. ETYMOLOGY. — Refers to the tube-like shape of the corallites.