Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 34

Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Pl. 1, Figs 2, 3

v*1848d Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides: Milne Edwards & Haime , vol. III, p. 102 (topotypes studied).

v1850 a Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides: Milne Edwards & Haime , p. 36, pl. 6, figs 2–2c (topotypes studied).

1925 Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides: M. Edw. et J. Haime 1848 : Felix, pars 28, p. 162 (older synonyms cited therein).

(v)1975 Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides Edwards et Haime, 1850 : Kuzmicheva, p. 28, pl. 4, figs 2, 3.

1987 Dendrophyllia weselovi Kuzmicheva , sp. nov.: Kuzmicheva, p. 149, pl. 26, figs 3a, b.

v1988 Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides Milne Edwards & Haime 1850 : Drobne et al., p. 185, pl. 30, figs 1, 2.

1997 Dendrophyllia new sp.: Stemann, in Bryan et al., p. 36, text-fig. 2B, Table 1.

v1998 Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 : Turnšek, in Turnšek & Drobne, p. 135, pl. 4, fig. 5.

v2000 Dendrophyllia nodosa Reuss, 1868 : Baron-Szabo, p. 112, pl. 7, figs 2–4.

v2002 Dendrophyllia nodosa Reuss, 1868 : Baron-Szabo, p. 77, pl. 55, figs 1–3.

Dimensions. d (lumen, max.)=3–5.5 mm, juvenile around 2 mm, late adult stages 8.5 mm; d (lumen, min.): 2.5– 5 mm; s=40–48+s5, in latest adult stages up to around 60, in juveniles up to 24.

Description. Colonial, dendroid to subfasciculate-subplocoid; polyps connected by a vesicular coenosteum; costosepta arranged according to the Pourtalès plan; endothecal dissepiments thin, subtabulate; wall septothecal-synapticulothecal, often thickened.

Remarks. The type material of D. dendrophylloides Milne Edwards & Haime (see Pl. 1, Fig. 2, upper surface view of colony) from the Eocene of England and the material from the Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica (see Pl. 1, Fig. 3, cross thin section) show corallites that are connected by well-developed coenosteum and have diameters ranging from 2 to around 8 mm (juvenile and adult corallites, including wall). In addition, in both specimens the number of septa is the same in corallites of the same diameter, e.g., ranging between 50 and 60 in corallites of lastest adult stages of around 8 mm in diameter (numbers include septa that are short and extend beyond the corallite wall as short spines), in juvenile corallites of around 2.5 mm in diameter around 24 septa are present. Therefore, the specimens from the Eocene of England and the Middle- Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica are considered the same taxon.

Type locality of species. Eocene of England (Bracklesham Bay) .

Distribution. Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica (this paper) and the UAE / Oman border region, Paleocene of Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the USA (Salt Mountain Limestone, Alabama), Eocene of England and Ukraine.

New Material. Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica, NMNH, Coates coll., sample no.: 397 (=Jerusalem Mountain Inlier).