Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys Author Vasseur, Raphaël Université de Lorraine, CNRS, lab. GeoRessources, UMR 7359, BP 70239, F- 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy cedex (France) raphaelvasseur@wanadoo.fr Author Lathuilière, Bernard Université de Lorraine, CNRS, lab. GeoRessources, UMR 7359, BP 70239, F- 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy cedex (France) bernard.lathuiliere@univ-lorraine.fr text Geodiversitas 2021 2021-11-23 43 22 1187 1291 journal article 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 1638-9395 5764379 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6D1643AD-66A5-4678-9397-CE08E610D641 Coryphyllia regularis Cuif, 1975 ( Fig. 16 ) Coryphyllia regularis Cuif, 1975: 380 , fig. 37a, b, c and fig. 38. — Ramovš & Turnšek 1984: 175 , pl. 4, fig. 1. — Turnšek & Buser 1989: 84 , pl. 3. — Turnšek & Senowbari-Daryan 1994: 481, pl. 3, fig. 5. — Vasseur 2018: 150-151 , fig. 3.18. TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype : MNHN .F.A31946 ( Cuif 1975: 380 , fig. 37a, b, c and fig. 38). STUDIED SAMPLES. — Seven specimens : CPUN 2303 A6-1, CPUN AM16182-3, CPUN AM16B236-1, CPUN MA0504E6-6, CPUN MA0504E7-13, CPUN MA0504E7-14, CPUNMA0904 E10. TYPE HORIZON. — Triassic. TYPE LOCALITY. — Anatolia , Turkey (municipality unknown). GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Triassic from Turkey ( Lycian Taurus ), Pliensbachian from Morocco ( Amellagou , Guigou Plateau ). DESCRIPTION Solitary coral cylindrical to conical, circular to slightly elliptical in outline. Radial elements are straight or curved, free, compact, bicuneiform costosepta with often rhopaloid inner edges. The septal apparatus is regular, organized in 3 or 4 distinct size orders. Lateral faces are smooth or finely granulated and there are some vestiges of a wavy mid-septal line. Endotheca made of numerous vesicular dissepiments distributed in all the interseptal space on which some lonsdaleoid septa can appear. No columella but a constricted, elongated fossa that defines a bilateral symmetry superimposed to the radial arrangement.An epicostal epitheca s.l. covers the external parts of the corallum. Calicular diameter: 22 to 57 mm – Number of septa: 51 to 90? – Septal density: 3 to 5 per 5 mm .