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Fig. 6

From: Pleistocene scleractinian corals from Marsa Alam area, Red Sea Coast, Egypt: systematics and biogeography

Fig. 6

(Scale bar = 10 mm, unless otherwise stated): a Leptastrea pruinosa Crossland 1952, Sh.L 5-1, Samadai Formation, Wadi Sharm El-Fuquiri; a1 small incrusting corallum; a2 close-up view on the cerioid corallites; b Echinopora hirsutissima Milne-Edwards & Haime 1849; Sh.L 9-1, Pleistocene raised reefs, (T III), Sharm El-Luli; b1 part of sub-massive to laminar corallum; b2 close-up view showing the exsert plocoid corallites with more beaded and spiny well-developed hirsute exothecal costae; b3 transverse thin section, showing the septothecal wall and the exothecal vesicular dissepiments c Porites lobata Dana 1846, Sh.L 8-30, Pleistocene raised reefs (T II), Sharm El-Luli; c1 part of massive colony; c2 close-up view showing the corallites’ details; c3 enlarged view of the area enclosed in the black box in Fig. c2

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