Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina
Author
Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C.
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-12-05
1952
1
244
journal article
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Faksephyllia faxoensis
(Beck, 1835)
Pl. 6, figs 6–8
parsv1820
Madreporites hyppurinus:
Schlotheim
, p. 356.
v*1835
Caryophyllia faxoensis:
Beck
,
in
Lyell, p. 249, fig. 4 (topotypes studied).
1922
Haplophyllia faxensis,
Beck
: Nielsen, p. 14, pl. 1, figs 1–7.
1972
Faksephyllia faxoensis
gen. n.
& Beck,
in
Lyell (1837) sp.: Floris, p. 73, pl. 4, figs 7–11, pl. 5, figs 1–5 (older synonyms cited therein).
1987
Faksephyllia faxoensis
(Beck,
in
Lyell, 1837): Kuzmicheva, p. 138, pl. 24, figs 7–8.
v1990
Faksephyllia faxoensis
(Beck, 1835)
: Bernecker & Weidlich, p. 113, pl. 26, figs 3, 4, pl. 29, figs 5–8, pl. 30, figs 3, 4 (topotypes studied).
(v)1996 Hexakoralle, Morphotyp 7: Tragelehn, p. 198, pl. 60, fig. 9.
v2005
Faksephyllia faxoensis
(Beck, 1835)
: Bernecker & Weidlich, p. 11ff, fig. 5B, fig. 6 (2), fig. 6B (topotypes studied).
Dimensions.
d=3–4.5 mm, juveniles 1.5–2.5 mm; s=30–40, in juveniles around 24.
Description.
Finely branched, phaceloid colony; corallites circular to irregularly elliptical in outline; septa developed in 4 incomplete cycles in 6 systems in corallites that are not influenced by budding; septa thin, straight, oldest of which reach corallite centre where they might fuse; branching angle often between 30°–45°, can be up to 90°.
Type
locality of species.
Middle Danian
of
Denmark
(Fakse limestone)
.
Distribution.
Paleocene of
Austria
, Middle Danian of
Denmark
(Fakse and
Greenland
) and
Sweden
(Limhamn).