Multisolenia a new genus of Paleozoic corals

The genus Multisolenia is created to include a colonial coral from the Silurian of the Lake Timiskaming district, in northern Ontario. This coral presents a hitherto unrecognized combination of characteristics. Its corallum, corallites, and septa resemble the Chaetetina of the Schistocoralla, but its corallites are connected by many solenia, as in the Alcyonaria.