Stephanophyllia cribraria ( Stephenson, 1916 )

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 152

Stephanophyllia cribraria ( Stephenson, 1916)

Pl. 13, figs 9a, b

v*1916 Micrabacia cribaria , n. sp.: Stephenson, p. 117, pl. 20, figs 1–3.

v1923 Micrabacia cribraria Stephenson : Stephenson, p. 66, pl. 9, figs 15–17.

v1926 Micrabacia cribraria Stephenson : Wade, p. 27, pl. 1, figs 9–10.

v1928 Micrabacia cribaria Stephenson : Whitney, p. 226.

v1933 Micrabacia cribraria Stephenson : Wells, p. 162 (244).

(v)1938 Stephanophyllia regularis n. sp.: Traub, p. 38, pl. 1, fig. 6.

1967 Stephanophyllia regularis Traub, 1938 : Kühn & Traub, p. 7.

2002 Micrabacia cribraria, Stephenson 1916 : Löser et al, p. 415 (older synonyms cited therein).

2002 Micrabacia cribraria Stephenson, 1917 : Baron-Szabo, p. 130.

Dimensions. d=5.5 mm; s=96.

Description. Flat to cupolate, free; S1 equal or thinner than S2.

Remarks. Re-examination of the type material revealed that it has perforate septa forming a marginal shelf. Therefore, the species M. cribraria belongs to the genus Stephanophyllia . Because no adequately preserved material from the Maastrichtian-Paleocene time period was available for study, the holotype of M. cribraria from the Campanian of the USA is shown in Pl. 13, figs 9a–b.

Type locality of species. Campanian of the USA ( Black Creek Formation, Neuse River , North Carolina) .

Distribution. Middle-Upper Turonian of northern Germany, Upper Santonian of Mexico, Santonian (Matawan, New Jersey; Bullock County, Georgia), Campanian (Black Creek Formation, Haddonfield, Lorilland, Crawfords Corner, North Carolina; Bullock County, Georgia), and Maastrichtian (Bullock and Lee Counties, Georgia; Union Springs, Alabama; McNairy County, Tennessee) of the USA, Paleocene of Austria.