Heliopora radiata ( d'Orbigny , 1850)

Loeser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Rosssteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) - a revised and extended version, Zitteliana 97, pp. 89-147 : 89

Heliopora radiata ( d'Orbigny, 1850)

v1850 Centrastrea radiata - d’Orbigny: (2), p. 207.

v2013 Polytremacis vermiculata (Felix, 1903) - Löser, Werner and Darga: 67, pl. 10, figs 7-9.

v2018 Heliopora radiata (Orbigny, 1850) - Löser, Steuber and Löser: 69, pl. 20, figs 7-9.

v2019 Heliopora radiata Orbigny, 1850 - Löser, Heinrich and Schuster: 324, figs 529a-c.

Material.

BSPG 1947 XVI 43, 1947 XVI 55; two thin sections.

Remarks.

In Löser et al. (2013c), these specimens were assigned to Polytremacis vermiculata (Felix, 1903b), but afterwards it was possible to examine the type material of Heliopora radiata ( d’Orbigny, 1850) and to take more detailed measurements in the (only) syntype of Heliopora vermiculata that show that both species differ in their dimensions.

Other occurrences.

Upper Aptian to lower Cenomanian of the Western Tethys (Spain, France), lower Cenomanian of the Central Tethys (Greece) and the Western Tethys (Spain, France), Coniacian to Santonian of the Central Tethys (Austria), upper Santonian of the Western Tethys (France), Maastrichtian of the Arabian Peninsula (United Arab Emirates).