Rayasmilia sp.

Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, Zitteliana 97, pp. 89-147 : 89-147

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13307652
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scientific name	Rayasmilia sp.
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? Rayasmilia sp.

Plate 10: figs 4–6 View Plate 10

Material.

LFU 8336 SG 015082 # 2; two thin sections.

Dimensions.

( LFU 8336 SG 015082 # 2).

Description.

Solitary turbinate coral with an elliptical outline. Septa made of small trabeculae, in a regular hexameral symmetry, not connected to each other. Septal lateral faces strongly dentated. Columella parietal. Wall septothecal. Endotheca unknown.

Remarks.

The assignation of this specimen to the Rayasmiliidae is preliminar. It differs from this family by strongly ornamented lateral septal faces and the septothecal wall, but coincides in the septal outline, septal microstructure, and regular symmetry.

Figures

Plate 10. (1–3) Trochophyllia melania (de Fromentel, 1861). LFU 8336 SG 015109. 1. Transversal thin section. 2. Transversal thin section, detail. 3. Transversal thin section, detail. (4–6)? Rayasmilia sp., LFU 8336 SG 015082 # 2. 4. Transversal thin section. 5. Transversal thin section, detail. 6. Transversal thin section, detail. (7–9) Kobyphyllia sp., LFU 8336 SG 015137 # 1. 7. Transversal thin section. 8. Transversal thin section, detail. 9. Longitudinal thin section. (10–11) Aulosmilia cristata Beauvais, 1982. LFU 8336 SG 015006 # 1. 10. Transversal thin section. 11. Transversal thin section, detail. Scale bars: 1 mm.