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 Alloiteausmilia boudaharensis Beauvais, 1986 ( Fig. 3 ) Alloiteausmilia boudaharensis Beauvais, 1986: 16 , pl. 3, fig. 3 and text-fig. 8-9. — Vasseur 2018: 114-115 , fig. 3.4. TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype MNHN .F.R11603. TYPE HORIZON. — Pliensbachian. TYPE LOCALITY. — Beni Tadjit, Morocco . STUDIED SAMPLES. — Two specimens : holotype MNHN .F.R11603; CPUN DA2905E1’-1. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of High Atlas in Morocco ( Dades Valley , Beni Tadjit ). DESCRIPTION Solitary coral with circular to elliptical calice. Radial elements are septa generally flexuous, free or joined by their inner edge, compact, commonly with a rhopaloid inner edge when free. Lateral faces seem sometimes smooth, sometimes irregularly granulated and septa appear to grow by successive deposits of stereome layers providing a lamellar aspect in transverse section as for the genus Archaeosmilia Melnikova, 1975 . No columella nor synapticulae.Endotheca made of large vesicular dissepiments in continuity with septal thickening. The curved septa and fossa elongation seem to define a bilateral symmetry. An epitheca s.l of undefined nature enwraps the corallite. Calicular diameter: approximately 45 mm – Number of septa: 41 to 68 (this last value according toBeauvais 1986)– Septal density: 3 to 5 for 5 mm .