Rhipidogyra sp.

Löser, Hannes, Nieto, Luis M., Castro, José Manuel & Reolid, Matías, 2019, A Lower Valanginian coral fauna from the South Iberian Palaeomargin (Internal Prebetic, SE Spain), Palaeontologia Electronica (a 06) 24 (1), pp. 1-57 : 37

Rhipidogyra sp.

Figure 47

Material. MGB 83291, 83299, 83308; 3 thin sections.

Dimensions. (MGB 83299) c, 11.8 x 64.4 mm; s, 350; sd 15 / 5 mm.

Remarks. Rhipidogyra is a mostly Jurassic genus; the majority of Cretaceous species assigned to this genus belong to other genera. More than 20 species are described from the Jurassic. Because the knowledge is poor how these species have to be distinguished, the present material remains in open nomenclature.

Figures

FIGURE 47. Rhipidogyra sp., MGB 83299. transversal thin section. Scale 1 mm.