Pseudofavia grandiflora ( Reuss, 1854 )

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 119

Pseudofavia grandiflora ( Reuss, 1854)

Pl. 9, figs 5a, b

v*1854 Parastraea grandiflora m: Reuss, p. 120, pl. 16, fig. 10.

v1903a Parastraea grandiflora Reuss : Felix, p. 181, fig. 7.

1930a Pseudofavia grandiflora (Reuss) : Oppenheim, p. 65, pl. XL, fig. 5.

1943 Pseudofavia grandiflora (Reuss) : Vaughan & Wells, p. 133, pl. 16, fig. 10.

1976 Pseudofavia grandiflora ( Reuss 1854) : Turnšek, in Turnšek & Buser, p. 60, 81, pl. 18, figs 1–3.

v1982 Pseudofavia grandiflora (Reuss) 1854 : Beauvais, vol. 2, p. 16, pl. 23, fig. 3 (older synonyms cited therein). (v)1997 Pseudofavia grandiflora ( Reuss 1854) : Turnšek, p. 174, figs 174 A–E.

2000 Pseudofavia grandiflora ( Reuss 1854) : Löser, p. 70.

v2000 Pseudofavia grandiflora ( Reuss, 1854) : Baron-Szabo, p. 116, pl. 8, fig. 4.

v2002 Pseudofavia grandiflora ( Reuss, 1854) : Baron-Szabo, p. 107, pl. 76, figs 1–4.

Dimensions. d (max)= 11–15 mm; d (min)= 9–12 mm; c-c= 9–11 mm; s=(44) 48–60; size of the colony: about 9 cm in diameter.

Description. Massive, cerioid colony; corallites polygonal in outline, separated by a vermiculate coenosteum, which is up to 2 mm in thickness; septa arranged in 4 complete with the beginning of a fifth cycle in 6 systems, regularly alternating in length, but nearly equal in thickness; axial ends may meet and fuse with the columella , or dissociate into paliform structures; columella spongy-papillose or made of elongate segments; occurrence of synapticulae mainly restricted to both the peripheral areas of corallite and the peritheca.

Remarks. The description of the type of Pseudofavia grandiflora (Reuss) by Beauvais (1982, vol. 2, p. 16–17) differs from the type material in that it does not reflect the whole spectrum of variation in the specimen. Beauvais gave 21.5–35.5 mm for the calicular diameter, which apparently was the size range of the largest corallites only (see syntype in Baron-Szabo 2002, pl. 76, fig. 1). In the type specimen corallites having a maximum diameter of 15–22 mm (11 mm in juveniles) are most common.

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

Distribution. Turonian-Campanian of Austria (Gosau Group), Senonian breccia (resediment) of Slovenia,?Senonian of Georgia (in Caucasia), Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of the UAE / Oman border region.