Aspidastraea orientalis Kühn, 1933

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 178-179

Aspidastraea orientalis Kühn, 1933

Pl. 16, fig. 2

?1880 Thamnastraea Balli, Duncan : Duncan, p. 55, pl. 19, figs 1–3.

v*1933 Aspidastraea orientalis nov. spec.: Kühn, p. 179; pl. 17, fig. 7.

1943 Aspidastraea orientalis Kühn : Vaughan &Wells, p. 135.

1952a Aspidastraea orientalis Kühn, 1933 : Alloiteau, p. 668.

1956 Aspidastraea orientalis Kühn : Wells, p. F387, fig. 280,3.

1987 Aspidastraea orientalis Kühn 1933 : Kuzmicheva, p. 87, pl. V, fig. 5.

v2000 Aspidastraea orientalis Kühn, 1933 : Baron-Szabo, p. 124, pl. 5, fig. 6, pl. 10, figs 1, 4. v2003 Aspidastraea orientalis Kühn, 1933 : Baron-Szabo, p. 144, pl. 25, figs 1–5.

Dimensions. c-c (adjacent series)=3–5.5 mm, up to 7 mm in peripheral areas; c-c (same series)= 2.5– 5 mm, around 1.5 mm in areas of intense budding; s(secondary corallites)=16–28, s (main corallites)= up to 60; s/ mm=16–20/5; h= 5–25 mm; colony= 18–53 mm in diameter.

Description. Corallum is in the form of a free colony, convex above, circular or slightly elliptical in outline, with corallites that are produced by circumoral budding; base flat or insignificantly concave, covered by a concentrically wrinkled epitheca; generally, one slightly larger central calice is present; rarely, two main calices may occur, or the size of the main calice might similar to the non-dominant corallites; septa straight or wavy, moderate and subequal in thickness, porous or subcompact, and covered with numerous granules and pennulae laterally; about 10 septa reach corallite centre, in main corallite up to 30 septa extend to the axial region; central part of corallites can be free or filled with a trabecular columella; thin endothecal dissepiments present; synapticulae very abundant; no wall between the corallites.

Type locality of species. Senonian of Iran (Esfahan Basin ) .

Distribution. Turonian of Armenia, Santonian of Austria (Gosau Group at Hochmoos), Senonian of Iran, Upper Maastrichtian of the UAE / Oman border region,?Paleocene of India.