Faksephyllia

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2016, New taxonomic, stratigraphic, and geographic information on the genus Faksephyllia Floris, 1972 (Scleractinia; Caryophylliidae); first records from the Oligocene of Austria, Germany, and Italy, Zootaxa 4154 (5), pp. 526-540 : 533-534

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Affinities of Faksephyllia View in CoL to other phaceloid-dendroid and select solitary caryophylliine genera

The genus Faksephyllia shows affinities to seven colonial genera of the Caryophylliidae and several genera of other caryophylliine families that form various phaceloid-dendroid types of branching, especially to the Holocene genus Solenosmilia DUNCAN, 1873 , and Lophelia MILNE EDWARDS & HAIME, 1849 , the latter of which has been recorded since the (?Paleocene) Eocene ( Tab. 1 and 2). The following list includes only caryophylliine genera forming branching types that are similar to the kinds seen in Faksephyllia . In addition, solitary genera are included to which specimens now interpreted to be juvenile forms of Faksephyllia were assigned ( Caryophyllia, Gardineria ) or with which fragments of Faksephyllia might be confounded ( Parasmilia )(for details see Tab. 2): PLATE 2.

Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 –15 Faksephyllia faxoensis (BECK, in LYELL, 1837)

Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 –3, 5 ICPUIBK WIM 6/12; Lower Oligocene of Austria (Häring Formation [Werlberg Member], located

between the townships of Kundl and Wörgl, Tyrol)

Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 : cross view of colony, thin section; scale bar: 5.5 mm.

Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 : close-up of Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ; scale bar: 3 mm.

Fig. 3: close-up of Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ; scale bar: 2.5 mm.

Fig. 5: close-up of Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ; scale bar: 2.7 mm.

Figs. 4, 6 Topotype, PAL-ERL. m 68, BERNECKER & WEIDLICH coll.; Middle Danian of Denmark (Fakse limestone)

Fig. 4: close-up of Fig. 6; photograph courtesy BERNECKER & WEIDLICH; scale bar: 1.2 mm. Fig. 6: cross view of colony, thin section; scale bar: 2.8 mm.

Fig. 7 MMH 12,674 View Materials , lateral view of juvenile specimen; Lower Danian of Denmark (Kangilia area, Greenland); based

on the illustration in FLORIS (1972, Pl. 4, Fig. 7); scale bar: 4 mm.

Fig. 8 MGU N 185/214, oblique cross/lateral view of juvenile specimen; Danian of Kazakhstan (Mangyshlak); based

on the illustration in KUZMICHEVA (1987, Pl. 24, Fig. 8); scale bar: 3 mm.

Figs. 9–10 MGU N 185/213, juvenile specimen; Danian of Kazakhstan (Mangyshlak)

Fig. 9: cross view of corallum; based on the illustration in KUZMICHEVA (1987, Pl. 24, Fig. 7a); scale bar: 3 mm.

Fig. 10: lateral view of corallum; based on the illustration in KUZMICHEVA (1987, Pl. 24, Fig. 7b); scale bar: 3 mm.

Figs. 11–13 MNHN M00800 View Materials ; Lower Oligocene of Italy (Castelgomberto), MICHELIN coll. (labeled as Lithodendron

[ Cladocora ] fusinieri Catullo])

Fig. 11: upper surface of colony; scale bar: 7 mm.

Fig. 12: close-up of Fig. 11; scale bar: 2.5 mm.

Fig. 13: close-up of Fig. 11; scale bar: 3.5 mm.