Caryophyllia mediavia Vaughan & Popenoe, 1935

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 51

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Caryophyllia mediavia Vaughan & Popenoe, 1935 View in CoL

Pl. 4, figs 2a, b

v*1935 Caryophyllia mediavia new species: Vaughan & Popenoe, p. 333, pl. 3, figs 12, 13.

v1935 Caryophyllia dumblei new species: Vaughan & Popenoe, p. 334, pl. 3, figs 14–16.

1970 Asterosmilia aliquantula Squires, 1958 View in CoL : Hassan & Salama, p. 89, pl. 3, figs 6a–c.

1972 Caryophyllia agatdalensis sp. n.: Floris, p. 49, pl. 2, figs 8a–9.

1987 Caryophyllia agatdalensis Floris, 1972 : Kuzmicheva, p. 116, pl. 19, figs 1a, b.

? 1993 Caryophyllia dumblei? Vaughan and Popenoe View in CoL : Hansen et al., p. 257, Table 1.

Dimensions. d (max)= 9–12 mm; d (min)=8.3– 10 mm; s=40–48 (+?s5); h=up to 16.5 mm.

Description. Variably conical corallum (trochoid, cylindrical, cornute); costosepta thin, fragile, arranged in 4 compete or incomplete cycles in 6 systems in a corallite of 9–12 mm; 40–44 septa are present in coralla of 7–8 mm diameter; wall rather thick.

Type locality of species. Danian of the USA (Texas, Falls County) .

Distribution. Lower Maastrichtian of Mexico (Cerralvo, this paper), Maastrichtian-Danian of Denmark ( Greenland), Danian of Azerbaijan and the USA (Texas), Paleocene of Egypt.

New Material. Lower Maastrichtian of Mexico (Cerralvo), sample nos: UANL CE MAAS-211, -215, -