Rayasmilia sp.

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D4564419-3213-4D38-96BB-E7CFE157E0F8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13307652

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C0B98CD4-279F-5479-A2F0-41AB2BD994BA

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scientific name

Rayasmilia sp.
status

 

? Rayasmilia sp.

Plate 10: figs 4–6 View Plate 10

Material.

LFU 8336 SG 015082 # 2; two thin sections.

Dimensions.

( LFU 8336 SG 015082 # 2).

Description.

Solitary turbinate coral with an elliptical outline. Septa made of small trabeculae, in a regular hexameral symmetry, not connected to each other. Septal lateral faces strongly dentated. Columella parietal. Wall septothecal. Endotheca unknown.

Remarks.

The assignation of this specimen to the Rayasmiliidae is preliminar. It differs from this family by strongly ornamented lateral septal faces and the septothecal wall, but coincides in the septal outline, septal microstructure, and regular symmetry.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Rayasmiliidae

Genus

Rayasmilia