Published December 20, 2023 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Rayasmilia undetermined

  • 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

? Rayasmilia sp.

Plate 10: figs 4–6

Material.

LFU 8336 SG 015082 # 2; two thin sections.

Dimensions.

(LFU 8336 SG 015082 # 2).

Description.

Solitary turbinate coral with an elliptical outline. Septa made of small trabeculae, in a regular hexameral symmetry, not connected to each other. Septal lateral faces strongly dentated. Columella parietal. Wall septothecal. Endotheca unknown.

Remarks.

The assignation of this specimen to the Rayasmiliidae is preliminar. It differs from this family by strongly ornamented lateral septal faces and the septothecal wall, but coincides in the septal outline, septal microstructure, and regular symmetry.

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

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Scleractinia
Family
Rayasmiliidae
Genus
Rayasmilia
Species
undetermined
Taxon rank
species