Truncatoflabellum victoriae (Duncan, 1864)

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 victoriae (Duncan, 1864) Fig. 2C

Flabellum victoriae Duncan, 1864: 162-163, pl. 5, fig. 2 a–c; 1870: 299, 312, pl. 19, fig. 11.- Tenison-Woods 1878b: 312.- Felix 1927: 415 (synonymy).

? Flabellum simplex Tenison-Woods, 1878: 13.- Squires 1958: 66 (type lost).

Truncatoflabellum victoriae : Cairns, 1989b: 61, pl. 37i.

New records.

Muddy Creek, near Hamilton, Victoria, Australia, Balcombian (Middle Miocene), 13 specimens, USNM 67962 and 68005; Balcombe’s Bay, Port Phillip, Victoria, Balcombian (Middle Miocene), 11 specimens, USNM 68000 and M353582; Balcombe’s Bay, Mornington, Balcombian (Middle Miocene), 3 specimens, USNM M353583; Spring Creek, Torquay, Victoria, Janjukian (Late Oligocene), 8 specimens, USNM 1283656.

Distribution.

Late Oligocene (Janjukian), Victoria; Middle Miocene (Balcombian), Muddy Creek, Geelong, Victoria, and Balcombe’s Bay, Victoria.