Dermosmiliopsis tenuicosta ( Reuss, 1854 )

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 195

Dermosmiliopsis tenuicosta ( Reuss, 1854)

Pl. 20, figs 3a, b

v*1854 Rhabdophyllia tenuicosta m.: Reuss, p. 105, pl. 6, figs 18 and 21 (topotypes studied).

non1903a Stenosmilia tenuicosta (Reuss) : Felix, p. 303, pl. 22, fig. 11, text-fig. 53.

non 1961 Stenosmilia tenuicosta (Reuss) : Suraru, p. 655, pl. 1, fig. 3.

1930a Stenosmilia (?) tenuicosta (Reuss) : Oppenheim, p. 434, pl. 42, figs 8–9.

non 1937 Stenosmilia tenuicostata Reuss sp. 1854: Bataller, p. 94.

non 1945 Stenosmilia tenuicostata Reuss sp. 1854: Bataller, p. 20.

1978 Dermosmiliopsis tenuicosta ( Reuss 1854) : Turnšek, in Turnšek & Polšak, p. 30 (158) and 48 (176), pl. 14, figs 1–5.

pars1982 Barysmilia tenuicosta (Reuss) 1854 : Beauvais, vol. 1, p. 182, pl. 14, fig. 9b non fig. 9a.

2002 Dermosmiliopsis tenuicostata ( Reuss 1854) : Löser et al., p. 228 (older synonyms cited therein).

v2002 Dermosmiliopsis tenuicosta ( Reuss, 1854) : Baron-Szabo, p. 154, pl. 116, figs 1–2.

Dimensions. d= 4–8 mm; s=60–100.

Description. Phaceloid to subdendroid colony; gemmation extracalicinal; corallites monocentric; septa subcompact to porous, with strongly beaded margins, arranged in 4–5 cycles in 6 systems; columella spongypapillose; endothecal dissepiments sparse, subtabulate, thin; synapticulae abundant; wall synapticulothecal.

Type locality of species. Upper Turonian-Campanian of Austria (Gosau Group) .

Distribution. Upper Turonian-Campanian of Austria (Gosau Group), Santonian-Campanian of Slovenia, Croatia, and Spain, Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica.

New Material. Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica, NMNH, Coates coll., sample nos.: 347; 353; 411 (=Jerusalem Mountain Inlier); 538 (=around two thousand pieces of fragments) (=Shaw Castle, Maldon Formation); J-71-13a3 (=Vaughnsfield).