Brachyphyllia felixi Baron-Szabo, 2000

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 193-194

Brachyphyllia felixi Baron-Szabo, 2000

Pl. 20, figs 4, 5

non1848 Pleurocora haueri: Milne Edwards & Haime , vol. 11, p. 312.

non1854 Pleurocora haueri M. Edw. et Haime : Reuss, p. 112, pl. 6, figs 26–27 (topotypes studied).

v1903 a Brachyphyllia haueri (Reuss) : Felix, p. 261, pl. 20, fig. 15, text-fig. 29 (topotype studied).

non1903a Pleurocora haueri M. Edw. e H.: Felix, p. 261.

1905 Brachyphyllia haueri (Reuss) : Angelis d’Ossat, p. 200.

pars1914 Brachyphyllia haueri Reuss sp. 1854: Felix, pars 5, p. 32.

non1914 Brachyphyllia haueri Reuss sp. 1854: Felix, pars 7, p. 170.

non1914 Pleurocora haueri M. E. et H.: Felix, pars 7, p. 172.

1930a Brachyphyllia haueri Felix : Oppenheim, p. 343, pl. 46, figs 1–1b (topotypes studied).

non1978 Pleurocora haueri Milne-Edwards & Haime 1848 : Turnšek, in Turnšek & Polšak, p. 155, 173, pl. 11, figs 1–3.

*2000 Brachyphyllia felixix sp. nov.: Baron-Szabo, p. 121, pl. 11, fig. 5.

Dimensions. d= 4–8 mm, in late adult stages up to 10 mm; s=60, up to about 100.

Description. Plocoid colony with elevated corallites that are circular in outline. Gemmation is due to extracalicinal budding. Costosepta are subcompact or compact in older cycles, straight, thin, and arranged in 4 to 5 cycles in 6 systems, regularly alternating in length. Septa of the first 3 cycles are nearly equal in thickness. Septa of remaining cycles are distinctly thinner. About 12 septa reach the axial region, sometimes fusing with neighbouring septa or with the spongy-papillose columella. Lateral surfaces of septa are covered by spiny or rounded granules and pennulae. Synapticulae are distributed throughout the colony. The wall is synapticulothecal. Endotheca consists of delicate vesicular dissepiments. In early ontogenetic stages the corallite may be covered by an epithecal wall.

Type locality of species. Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of the UAE /Oman border region (Jebel Huwayyah, Al Ain) .

Distribution. Aptian of northern Spain (Catalonia), Santonian-Campanian of Austria (Gosau Group), Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of the UAE / Oman border region and Jamaica (this paper).

New Material. Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica, NMNH, Coates coll., sample no.: 545q (=Rio Minho).

Genus Dermosmiliopsis Alloiteau, 1952

Type species. Dermosmiliopsis orbignyi Alloiteau, 1952a , Upper Santonian of France (Aude) .

Diagnosis. Phaceloid to subdendroid colony. Gemmation extracalicinal. Corallites monocentric. Septa porous, with strongly beaded margins. Columella spongy-papillose. Endothecal dissepiments sparse. Synapticulae abundant. Wall synapticulothecal.