
Halysites
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thumb|right|Thin-section view of Halysites corallum
Halysites (meaning chain coral) is an extinct genus of tabulate coral. Colonies range from less than one to tens of centimeters in diameter, and they fed upon plankton.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Halysites” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.