Coral fauna across the Cretaceous- Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C. Schlagintweit, Felix Rashidi, Koorosh Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 7 2023-05-09 142 1 1 49 85W43 Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 Milne Edwards & Haime 1850 [813,1363,640,665] Anthozoa Oculinidae Oculina Animalia Scleractinia 21 22 Cnidaria species conferta   Fig. 11D, F. *1850  Oculina conferta: Milne Edwards & Haime, p. 27, Pl. 2, Fig. 2. 1857  Oculina conferta: Milne Edwards & Haime, vol. 2, p. 109. 1860  Oculina conferta: de Fromentel, p. 176. 1881  Oculina conferta: Quenstedt, p. 970, Pl. 180, Fig. 48. 1925  Oculina conferta M. Edw. et J. Haime 1850: Felix, pars 28, p. 222 (cum synonymis). 1997  Oculina new sp.: Stemann, in Bryan et al, p. 33, Text— Fig. 2A.  v1998  Oculina conferta Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850: Turnšek & Drobne, p. 136, Pl. 5, Figs. 1–4. v2006  Oculina conferta Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850: Baron-Szabo, p. 65, Pl. 13, Fig. 5.   Dimensions.d: 1.6 ‒ 2 mm, in areas of intense budding around 1 mm; s: 14–24 (+ s), in corallites in areas of intense budding 12.   Description.Dendro-phaceloid; corallites bud off nearly rectangular; septa compact, developed in irregular septal cycles, covered by spiniform and rounded granules laterally; costae short or absent; pali irregularly present; wall septothecal.      Typelocality of species. Lower Eoceneof England(London Clay).    Distribution.Paleocene of the USA( Alabama), Tanetian of Slovenia(Adriatic Platform), Selandian ‒Tanetian of Iran(this paper, Sistan Suture Zone, eastern Iran; Suture Zagros Zone, southwestern Iran), Lower Eocene of England.  New material.1pz92 (13), 2pz94 (10, 18), BN ‒59 ‒N1 (4 ‒II) (all from Sistan Suture Zone, eastern Iran); Qs27 (1), Os87 (37), Qs93 (19) (all form Zagros Zone, southwestern Iran).  Family  Dendrophylliidae Gray,1847 Genus  Lobopsammia Milne Edwards & Haime,1848d  Typespecies.  Lithodendron cariosum Goldfuss, 1826, Eocene of France(subsequent designation by Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850).   Diagnosis.Colonial, dendroid, forming small arborescent colonies by di- and tristomodaeal intracalicular budding. Corallites often irregularly shaped or elongate in outline. Septasubcompact to porous. Wall synapticulothecal, costate. Costae granular and serrate by deep intercostal furrows. Septaarranged in Pourtalès plan. Columella trabecular, mesh ‒like or made of twisted and elongate segments. Endotheca sparsely present or absent. Epitheca sensu lato present at base. United Kingdom Lower Eocene 21 22 1 holotype