Coryphyllia capillaria, Vasseur & Lathuilière, 2021
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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 |
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urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6D1643AD-66A5-4678-9397-CE08E610D641 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F1891D54-805C-4A00-BCCE-C7585E5119CA |
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lsid:zoobank.org:act:F1891D54-805C-4A00-BCCE-C7585E5119CA |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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Coryphyllia capillaria |
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sp. nov. |
Coryphyllia capillaria n. sp.
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Coryphyllia sp. 1 – Vasseur 2018: 152-153, fig. 3.19.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: CPUN PFPyr7-2; paratypes: CPUN 2303 A1-2, CPUN 2303 A8-1, CPUN AM16183-4, CPUN CDAm7, CPUN MA0504E7-13, CPUN MA0504E7-17, CPUN MA0704E3-10, CPUN MA0704E3-12. STUDIED SAMPLES. — Nine specimens: CPUN 2303 A1-2, CPUN 2303 A8-1, CPUN AM16183-4, CPUN CDAm7, CPUN MA0504E7-13, CPUN MA0504E7-17, CPUN MA0704E3-10, CPUN MA0704E3-12, CPUN PFPyr7-2.
ETYMOLOGY. — Refers to the very thin and long septa of high orders.
TYPE HORIZON. — Pliensbachian . TYPE LOCALITY. — Estivère pass, French Pyrenees. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian from France and Middle and High Atlas of Morocco.
DESCRIPTION
Solitary coral cylindrical to conical, circular to slightly elliptical in outline. Radial elements are straight or curved, free, compact, costosepta with first cycle septa often bicuneiform with rhopaloid inner edge that alternate with septa of higher cycles that can be very thin. The septal apparatus is organized in 3 or 4 distinct size orders, sometimes difficult to distinguish.Lateral faces are smooth or finely granulated and there are some vestiges of a wavy mid-septal line. Endotheca made of numerous vesicular dissepiments distributed in all the interseptal space on which some lonsdaleoid septa can appear. No columella but a constricted, elongated fossa that defines a bilateral symmetry superimposed to the radial arrangement. An often eroded epicostal epitheca s.l. covers the external parts of the corallum. Calicular diameter: 20 to 53 mm – Number of septa: 110 to 140 – Septal density: 6 to 12 per 5 mm.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
Differs from Coryphyllia regularis by higher values of septal densities and number of septa and also by a septal apparatus made of less bicuneiform septa in which it is more difficult to distinguish the different size orders of septa.
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Coryphyllia capillaria
Vasseur, Raphaël & Lathuilière, Bernard 2021 |
Coryphyllia sp. 1
VASSEUR R. 2018: 152 |