Craspedophyllia Volz, 1896

Roniewicz, Ewa, 2011, Early Norian (Triassic) corals from the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria, and the intra-Norian faunal turnover, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (2), pp. 401-428 : 415

Genus Craspedophyllia Volz, 1896

Type species: Axosmilia alpina Loretz, 1875 , Carnian , Dolomites, Italy .

Remarks.—Genus Craspedophyllia was originally assigned to the family Procyclolitidae Vaughan and Wells 1943 , then moved to the Alpinophylliidae Roniewicz, 1989 ( Roniewicz et al. 2005), and herein to the family Reimaniphylliidae . The reason for this inconsistency lies in the lack of well preserved septal microstructure, the diagnostic feature for taxa of suprageneric rank. The traces of the microstructure observed in the material under study (see below) allow for the assignment of Craspedophyllia , together with Distichophyllia and Retiophyllia , to the family Reimaniphylliidae .

The taxon described herein belongs to a phaceloid group of species included to Craspedophyllia . This morphpology is especially common among diverse thin−septal and columellabearing corals from a wide border belt between the Tethys and Panthalassa, described from Timor ( Roniewicz et al. 2005) and Japan ( Okuda et al. 2005).