Aulosmilia cristata Beauvais, 1982

Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, Zitteliana 97, pp. 89-147 : 89-147

Aulosmilia cristata Beauvais, 1982

Plate 10: figs 10, 11

vp 1921 Placosmilia bofilli , n. sp. – Vidal: 4, pl. 4, figs 6, 7.

* 1982 Aulosmilia cristata nov. sp. – Beauvais: (1), 224, pl. 19, fig. 9.

v 1997 Peplosmilia fromenteli Angelis d’Ossat, 1905 – Baron-Szabo: 72, pl. 8, fig. 1.

v 2019 Aulosmilia cristata Beauvais, 1982 – Löser, Heinrich and Schuster: 239, figs 378 a, b.

Material.

LFU 8336 SG 015006 # 1; two thin sections.

Dimensions.

( LFU 8336 SG 015006 # 1).

Remarks.

Placosmilia bofilli Vidal, 1921 is based on two syntypes that belong to different species: Aulosmilia inconstans and Aulosmilia cristata . Only one specimen was illustrated. A lectotype has so far not been selected.

Other occurrences.

Coniacian to Santonian of the Central Tethys ( Austria), Santonian of the Western Tethys ( Spain).

Figures

Plate 10. (1–3) Trochophyllia melania (de Fromentel, 1861). LFU 8336 SG 015109. 1. Transversal thin section. 2. Transversal thin section, detail. 3. Transversal thin section, detail. (4–6)? Rayasmilia sp., LFU 8336 SG 015082 # 2. 4. Transversal thin section. 5. Transversal thin section, detail. 6. Transversal thin section, detail. (7–9) Kobyphyllia sp., LFU 8336 SG 015137 # 1. 7. Transversal thin section. 8. Transversal thin section, detail. 9. Longitudinal thin section. (10–11) Aulosmilia cristata Beauvais, 1982. LFU 8336 SG 015006 # 1. 10. Transversal thin section. 11. Transversal thin section, detail. Scale bars: 1 mm.