Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version
Author
Löser, Hannes
Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Blvd. Luis Donaldo Colosio S / N y Madrid, 83250 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Author
Werner, Winfried
SNSB – Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie and GeobioCenterLMU, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, D- 80333 München, Germany
Author
Darga, Robert
Naturkunde- und Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf, Auenstraße 2, D- 83313 Siegsdorf, Germany
text
Zitteliana
2023
2023-12-20
97
89
147
journal article
10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796
D4564419-3213-4D38-96BB-E7CFE157E0F8
Heliopora
de
Blainville, 1830
Type
species.
Millepora coerulea
Pallas, 1766
Description.
The genus forms small spheric, fingerlike or incrusting colonies. The corallites are circular and very regular. The septa are short. The coenosteum appears cellular with very fine pores and tiny spines, or is rarely vermiculate.
Remarks.
As explained in
Hernández Morales and Löser (2018)
, the genus
Polytremacis
is a junior synonym of the extant genus
Heliopora
. The corallite dimensions of the species of the study area are compared in Table
1
.