a. and sb. [f. mod.L. Stromatopora (see next) + -OID.] a. adj. Pertaining to or characteristic of the Stromatoporidæ. b. sb. A member of the Stromatoporidæ, a family of hydrocoralline corals of Paleozoic age, typified by the genus Stromatopora.
1877. H. A. Nicholson & Murie, in Jrnl. Linn. Soc., Zool., XIV. 189. A Stromatoporoid fossil. Ibid., 202. In studying the minute structure of any Stromatoporoid, it is necessary to make sections in two directions.
1896. S. F. Harmer, Polyzoa (Camb. Nat. Hist. II.), 520. The Stromatoporoids … have been variously referred to the Sponges, Hydrozoa, and Foraminifera, as well as to the Polyzoa.
