Stylina sp. 1

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 : 43

Stylina sp. 1

Figure 53

Material. MGB 83239, 83306, 83307, 83348; 5 thin sections.

Dimensions. See Table 46.

Remarks. The present material probably belongs to a new species. Most similar is Stylina digitiformis Achiardi, 1880 , but it shows smaller corallite dimensions. From the Jurassic and Cretaceous, there are approximately 200 Stylina species formally described (Lathuilière, 1989; Löser, 2000). A comparison of new material with all these species is difficult because the type material of many species is lost and morphometric data are rarely available from the literature.

Occurrence. Valanginian to Aptian of Mexico (Puebla) San Juan Raya ( IGM nn) .

Figures

FIGURE 53. Stylina sp. 1, MGB 83306. 1: transversal thin section. 2: transversal thin section, detail. 3: longitudinal thin section. Scale 1 mm.