Loboseris abbreviata ( Reuss, 1854 )

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 190-191

Loboseris abbreviata ( Reuss, 1854)

Pl. 19, figs 5a–6

v*1854 Mussa abbreviata: Reuss , p. 104, pl. 4, figs 4–6.

1857 Favia ? abbreviata: Milne Edwards , vol. 2, p. 440.

1858–61 Thecosmilia abbreviata (Reuss) : de Fromentel, p. 172.

v1903 a Thecosmilia abbreviata (Reuss) : Felix, p. 243.

1914 Thecosmilia abbreviata Reuss sp. 1854: Felix, pars 7, p. 161.

v1982 Loboseris abbreviata (Reuss) 1854 : Beauvais, vol. II, p. 261–262, pl. 47, fig. 3.

2000 Loboseris abbreviata ( Reuss 1854) : Löser, p. 49.

v2002 Loboseris abbreviata ( Reuss, 1854) : Baron-Szabo, pl. 113, figs 1–4.

Dimensions. d (max)= 18–25 mm; d (min)= 15–17 mm; s/mm=19–25/10.

Description. Colonial, massive, meandroid; gemmation intracalicinal-terminal. calices monocentric or in short wavy series; peritheca consists of thin vesicular and tabular dissepiments; costosepta perforate, nonconfluent, marginally granular; columella parietal-spongy; synapticulae and endothecal dissepiments abundant; wall synapticulothecal; no wall between calices of the same series.

Type locality of species. Santonian of Austria (Gosau Group) .

Distribution. Santonian of Austria (Gosau Group), Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica.

New Material. Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica, NMNH, Coates coll., sample no.: 595 (=probably Cambridge area); J-71-12 (=Shaw Castle, Maldon Formation);?540 (has d ranging between 7 and 10 mm but same septal density as abbreviata =?juvenile form of abbreviata ) (=Shaw Castle, Maldon Formation).