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 Distichophyllia Cuif, 1975 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 9AFC2812-4FBF-4D3B-B7C7-70E2CF443C07 TYPE SPECIES. — Montlivaltia norica Frech, 1890: 39 : pl. 3, fig. 8, 9, pl. 10, fig. 1-5, pl. 18, fig. 17, by original designation. REMARK The genus differs from Coryphyllia Cuif, 1975 by a midseptal line in zigzag, thick fibrous and laminar stereome deposits on lateral faces and the lack of lonsdaleoid septa.