Brachycoenia aff. composita ( Sowerby, 1832 )

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, Zitteliana 97, pp. 89-147 : 89-147

Brachycoenia aff. composita ( Sowerby, 1832)

Plate 4: figs 8–10

v 2019 Brachycoenia aff. composita ( Sowerby, 1832) – Löser, Heinrich and Schuster: 95, figs 135 a – c.

Material.

BSPG 1955 XIX 34; two thin sections.

Dimensions.

( BSPG 1955 XIX 34).

Remarks.

The specimen has smaller corallite dimensions compared to Brachycoenia composita . Since the type material of Brachycoenia composita is not available and a correct comparison is not possible, a new species cannot be established for this specimen.

Other occurrences.

Coniacian to Santonian of the Central Tethys ( Austria).

Figures

Plate 4. (1–2) Thalamocaeniopsis sp. 2, BSPG 1947 XVI 76. 1. Transversal thin section. 2. Transversal thin section, detail. (3–4) Eocomoseris sp., LFU 8336 SG 015094 # 3. 3. Transversal thin section. 4. Transversal thin section, detail. (5–7) Paractinacis uliae Löser & Heinrich, 2018. LFU 8336 SG 015157. 5. Transversal thin section. 6. Transversal thin section, detail. 7. Longitudinal thin section. (8–10) Brachycoenia aff. composita (Sowerby, 1832). BSPG 1955 XIX 34. 8. Colony surface. 9. Transversal thin section. 10. Longitudinal thin section. Scale bars: 1 mm.