Hydnophoraraea aff. digitata (de Fromentel, 1877 )

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

Hydnophoraraea aff. digitata (de Fromentel, 1877)

Plate 6: figs 6, 7

Material.

LFU 8336 SG 015224; three thin sections.

Dimensions.

( LFU 8336 SG 015224).

Remarks.

The present specimen differs from H. digitata by larger distances between the crests. Moreover, the crests are polygonal in H. digitata , but conical in the present specimen.

Figures

Plate 6. (1–3) Synastrea heberti (Alloiteau, 1952). BSPG 1947 XVI 67. 1. Transversal thin section. 2. Transversal thin section, detail. 3. Longitudinal thin section. (4–5) Synastrea? salisburgensis (Beauvais, 1982). LFU 8336 SG 015228 # 5. 4. Transversal thin section. 5. Transversal thin section, detail. (6–7) Hydnophoraraea aff. digitata (de Fromentel, 1877). LFU 8336 SG 015224. 6. Transversal thin section, detail. 7. Transversal thin section. (8–9) Hydnophoraraea rapulum Oppenheim, 1930. LFU 8336 SG 015087 # 1. 8. Transversal thin section. 9. Longitudinal thin section. Scale bars: 1 mm.