Truncatoflabellum sphenodeum (Tenison-Woods, 1880) Tenison-Woods, 1880

Cairns, Stephen D., 2016, A key to the genera and species of the transversely-dividing Flabellidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Flabellidae), with a guide to the literature, and the description of two new species, ZooKeys 562, pp. 1-48 : 13

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum sphenodeum (Tenison-Woods, 1880) comb. n. Fig. 5B

Flabellum sphenodeum Tenison-Woods, 1880: 14, figs 12a-c.-?Hayward, 1977: 105-106, fig. 8.

? Flabellum attenuatum Tenison-Woods, 1880: 15, fig. 15.

Flabellum rubrum sphenodeum: Squires 1958: 66-67, pl. 11, figs 21-25 (lectotype designated).

? Flabellum sp. A Hayward, 1977: 106, fig. 9.

New record.

Junction of Porter and Thomas Rivers, New Zealand, S66/74, NZGS 3350, Duntroonian (early Oligocene), 3 specimens, USNM 67908.

Distribution.

Middle Eocene (Bortonian) to Middle Miocene (Waiauan) of New Zealand ( Squires 1958).

Remarks.

According to the records of Squires (1958), this would be the oldest Truncatoflabellum , being reported from the Bortonian (Middle Eocene) of New Zealand.

The specimens reported by Hayward (1977) as " Flabellum " sphenodeum and " Flabellum " sp. A have much larger basal scars and shorter coralla than typical Flabellum sphenodeum and are thus not included with this species. Specimens in the NMNH that may be the same are USNM 67932 and 67928, and may represent an undescribed species.