Synastrea? salisburgensis ( Beauvais, 1982 )

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

Synastrea? salisburgensis ( Beauvais, 1982)

Plate 6: figs 4, 5

? * 1982 Fungiastraea salisburgensis nov. sp. – Beauvais: (2), p. 75, pl. 27, fig. 5, pl. 28, fig. 1.

v 2018 Synastrea sp. – Löser, Steuber and Löser: 46, pl. 6, figs 1–3.

v 2019 Synastrea salisburgensis ( Beauvais, 1982) – Löser, Heinrich and Schuster: 151, figs 226 a – c.

Material.

LFU 8336 SG 015227 # 2, 8336 SG 015228 # 3, 8336 SG 015228 # 5; three thin sections.

Dimensions.

( LFU 8336 SG 015228 # 5).

Remarks.

As already mentioned in Löser et al. (2019), the type material of the species is not available and the morphometric data provided in the literature do not allow a clear separation from other species.

Other occurrences.

Aptian to Santonian of the Central Tethys ( Greece, Austria), Campanian to Maastrichtian of the Western Atlantic ( Jamaica).

Figures

Plate 6. (1–3) Synastrea heberti (Alloiteau, 1952). BSPG 1947 XVI 67. 1. Transversal thin section. 2. Transversal thin section, detail. 3. Longitudinal thin section. (4–5) Synastrea? salisburgensis (Beauvais, 1982). LFU 8336 SG 015228 # 5. 4. Transversal thin section. 5. Transversal thin section, detail. (6–7) Hydnophoraraea aff. digitata (de Fromentel, 1877). LFU 8336 SG 015224. 6. Transversal thin section, detail. 7. Transversal thin section. (8–9) Hydnophoraraea rapulum Oppenheim, 1930. LFU 8336 SG 015087 # 1. 8. Transversal thin section. 9. Longitudinal thin section. Scale bars: 1 mm.