Truncatoflabellum gippslandicum (Dennant, 1899)

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 : 9

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum gippslandicum (Dennant, 1899) Fig. 2B

Flabellum gippslandicum Dennant, 1899: 112-113, pl. 2, figs 1 a–b.- Felix 1927: 409.- Bell 1981: 11 (type deposition).-Fitzgerald and Schmidt: 3 (color fig).

Truncatoflabellum gippslandicus (sic): Cairns 1989b: 61.

Distribution.

Miocene: Gippsland Lake area of Victoria, Australia; Middle Miocene of Beaumaris, Victoria.

Remarks.

The two syntypes of Truncatoflabellum gippslandicum were reported by Bell (1981) from the NMV (P27064). No other records of this species are known, and the information presented in the key and comparative Table 2 is taken from the original description.