Published December 20, 2023 | Version v1
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Polyastropsis fascigera

  • 1. Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Blvd. Luis Donaldo Colosio S / N y Madrid, 83250 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
  • 2. SNSB – Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie and GeobioCenterLMU, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, D- 80333 München, Germany
  • 3. Naturkunde- und Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf, Auenstraße 2, D- 83313 Siegsdorf, Germany

Description

Polyastropsis cf. fascigera (Felix, 1909)

cf 1909 Isastraea fascigera – Felix: 172, pl. 7, fig. 2.

v 2013 Thalamocaeniopsis sp. – Löser, Werner and Darga: 63, pl. 8, figs 7–9.

Material.

BSPG 1947 XVI 56; two thin sections.

Remarks.

In Löser et al. (2013 c) this specimen was assigned to the genus Thalamocaeniopsis. This is changed here. Thalamocaeniopsis has polygonal corallites and a marked wall, even if thin and incomplete, whereas Polyastreopsis has no wall at all and the corallite outline is irregular. The specimen differs from Polyastropsis fascigera by having smaller distances of the corallites and a higher number of septa.

Other occurrences.

Upper Aptian of the Western Tethys (Spain), lower Albian of the Western Atlantic (Mexico), lower Cenomanian of the European Boreal (Germany).

Notes

Published as part of Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, pp. 89-147 in Zitteliana 97 on pages 89-147, DOI: 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Felix
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Scleractinia
Family
Latomeandridae
Genus
Polyastropsis
Species
fascigera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Polyastropsis fascigera (Felix, 1909) sec. Löser, Werner & Darga, 2023

References

  • Felix J (1909) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Korallenfauna des Syrischen Cenoman. Beitrage zur Palaontologie und Geologie Osterreich-Ungarns und des Orients 22: 169 - 175.
  • Löser H, Werner W, Darga R (2013 c) A Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Northern Calcareous Alps (Bavaria, Southern Germany) – new insights into the evolution of Mid-Cretaceous corals. Zitteliana A 53: 37–76.