Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis ( Duncan, 1865 )

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 201-202

Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis ( Duncan, 1865)

Pl. 21, fig. 4

1865 Heliastraea exsculpta: Duncan , in Duncan & Wall, p. 7, 8, 11.

v*1865 Heliastraea cyathiformis: Duncan , in Duncan & Wall, p. 7, 8, Pl. 1, figs 1a, b.

1867 Heliastraea exsculpta Duncan : Duncan, vol. 4, p. 24.

1867 Heliastraea cyathiformis Duncan : Duncan, vol. 4, p. 24.

v1899 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis (Duncan) : Vaughan, p. 236, pl. 37, fig. 5, pl. 38, fig. 1.

1919 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis (Duncan) : Vaughan, p. 194.

1934 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis (Duncan) : Wells, p. 90.

1956 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis (Duncan) : Wells, p. F 406, fig. 302.3.

v 1960 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis Duncan : Berryhill, et al., p. 151.

?1997 Promadracis ramosus n. sp.: Reig Oriol, p. 12, pl. 1, fig. 7.

1994 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis (Duncan) : Liao & Xia, p. 177, pl. 53, figs 5–8.

v1998 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis (Duncan) : Baron-Szabo, p. 131, pl. 6, fig. 4.

2000 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis ( Duncan & Wall 1865) : Löser, p. 55.

2000 Promadracis ramosus, Reig Oriol 1997 : Löser, p. 69.

2002 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis (Duncan) : Mitchell, p. 6 ff., table 1.

v2002 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis ( Duncan, 1865) : Baron-Szabo, p. 189, pl. 131, figs 1–6.

v2003 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis ( Duncan, 1865) : Baron-Szabo, p. 119, pl. 3, fig. 7.

(v)2005 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis ( Duncan, 1865) : Filkorn et al., p. 118, fig. 2b.

v2006 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis ( Duncan, 1865) : Baron-Szabo et al., p. 12, fig. 4.3.

in regions of intensive budding the corallite distance may be smaller; s=24; ramose colonies= up to 15 cm in length and 5 cm in diameter; massive colonies=up to 8 cm in diameter; columniform colonies= up to 30 cm in length with branches that are 0.8– 3 cm in diameter.

Description. Colonial, columniform, ramose, or irregularly massive, plocoid; calices circular in outline; gemmation extracalicinal; costosepta nonconfluent or rarely subconfluent, compact, arranged in three cycles in 6 systems; septal anastomose frequently; costae strongly granulated and united by numerous subtabulate dissepiments; lateral surfaces of septa ornamented with spiniform granules or vertical carinae; paliform lobes sparse; S1 and S2 nearly equal, extending to the columella ; S3 alternate in length with them; intercorallite areas crossed by costae when corallites close together; when more distant, costae merge into a porous, reticulated coenenchyme; columella made of isolated or joined papillae; wall septoparathecal to septothecal, rarely synapticulothecal; endotheca dissepiments thin, tabulate or vesicular; exothecal dissepiments tabulate or arched, well-developed.

Type locality of species. Campanian of Jamaica (Trout Hall) .

Distribution. Santonian of Austria (Gosau Group), Campanian-Maastrichtian (new material) and Eocene of Jamaica, Campanian-Maastrichtian of Tibet; Campanian-?Maastrichtian of northern Spain (Catalonia), Maastrichtian of Mexico (Ocozocuautla and Cardenas Formations), Danian of Puerto Rico.

New Material. Maastrichtian of Jamaica, NMNH, Coates, coll., sample nos.: 317a; 324; 327; 447; 460; 465-II; 469f-I; 485o; 485q; 485r; 485s; 490d; 491a-I; 491b; 516h; 493a; 497n; 497o; 497r; 497s; 497t; 497u; 497v; 497w; 497x; 497z; 498; 500d; 500e; 500f; 503; 506b; 508; 515e; J-71-20j; J-71-20k; J-71-20L; J-71- 20m; J-71-20n; J-71-20o; J-71-20p; J-71-20q; J-71-20r; J-71-20s; J-71- 20t; J-71-20u; J-71-20v; J-71-20w; J- 71-20x; J-71-20y; J-71-20z (=Ducketts Land Settlement); 370c; 381; 387b; 403; 431d-II (=Jerusalem Mountain Inlier); 440m (=Catadupa); 532d; J-71-13v3; J-71-13w3; J-71-13x3; J-71-13y3; J-71-13z3; J-71-13a4; J- 71-13b4; J-71-13c4; J-71-13d4 (=Vaughnsfield); 533i; 533k; 533L; 533q; 533s; 533t-II; 534b (=Shaw Castle, Maldon Formation); 569c; 569g; 569h; 569i; 569j; 569k; 569L; 570i; 570t; 570u; 585b; 585e; 589a; 589c; 591e; Jag 18.9f; Jag 18.9g; Jag 18.9h; Jag 18.9i; Jag 18.9j; Jag 18.9k; Jag 18.9L; Jag 18.9m; Jag 18.9n (=probably Cambridge railway area); 578; -71-34q; J-71-103b; J-71Ab; J-71Ac; J-71Ad; J-71Ae; J-71Af (=Rio Minho).