Cryptocoenia waltoni ( Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 )

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

Cryptocoenia waltoni ( Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851)

v * 1851 Convexastrea waltoni – Milne Edwards and Haime: 109, pl. 23, figs 5, 6.

v 1873 Astrocoenia Reussiana, Stoliczka – Stoliczka: 27, pl. 5, figs 3, 4.

v 1947 Cyathophora Fontserei Bataller 1944 – Bataller: 48, text-fig.

v 1966 Stylina elegans Beauvais – Beauvais: 121, pl. 1, fig. 1.

v 1974 Cyathophora pygmaea Volz – Turnšek and Buser: 12, 33, pl. 4, fig. 1.

v 1981 Cyathophora pygmaea Volz 1903 – Turnšek and Mihajlovic: 18, pl. 13, figs 1, 2.

v 1994 Adelocoenia pygmaea (Volz 1903) – Löser: 10, text-figs 4, 5, pl. 12, figs 1, 2.

v 2013 Cryptocoenia fontserei ( Bataller, 1947) – Löser, Werner and Darga: 66, pl. 9, figs 7–9.

v 2015 c Cryptocoenia reussiana ( Stoliczka, 1873) – Löser: 21, figs 3 D – F.

Material.

BSPG 1947 XVI 12, 1947 XVI 20, 1947 XVI 23, 1947 XVI 49, 1947 XVI 6, 1947 XVI 77, 1991 X 43, LFU 8336 SG 015013 # 1, 8336 SG 015107, 8336 SG 015228 # 4; eight thin sections.

Remarks.

In Löser et al. (2013 c) this material was assigned to Cryptocoenia fontserei Bataller, 1947 . Afterwards, it was possible to examine the types of Cryptocoenia waltoni and Cryptocoenia fontserei . It transpired that both species are synonymous.

Other occurrences.

Aalenian to Callovian of the European Boreal ( UK), Callovian of the Central Tethys ( Tunisia), Kimmeridgian of the European Boreal ( Germany), upper Barremian to lower Aptian of the Central Tethys ( Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia), lower Aptian of the Western Tethys ( Spain), lower Albian of the Western Atlantic ( Mexico), lower Albian to lower Cenomanian of the Western Tethys ( Spain, France), upper Albian of the Southern Tethys ( India) and the European Boreal ( UK), lower Cenomanian of the Western Tethys ( Spain), middle Cenomanian of the European Boreal ( Belgium, Germany).