Eosiderastrea 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

Eosiderastrea sp.

Plate 13: figs 7–9

Material.

LFU 8336 SG 015227 # 3; two thin sections.

Dimensions.

( LFU 8336 SG 015227 # 3).

Remarks.

The present specimen has a decameral septal symmetry with three septal cycles. All other Eosiderastrea with such a symmetry and large corallite dimensions (as the present specimen) have four septal cycles. Hence, the present specimen is very probably a new species.

Figures

Plate 13. (1–3) Stylina arborea d’Achiardi, 1880. BSPG 1991 X 44. 1. Transversal thin section. 2. Transversal thin section, detail. 3. Longitudinal thin section. (4–6) Stylina sp., BSPG 1947 XVI 35. 4. Transversal thin section. 5. Transversal thin section, detail. 6. Longitudinal thin section. (7–9) Eosiderastrea sp., LFU 8336 SG 015227 # 3. 7. Transversal thin section. 8. Transversal thin section, detail. 9. Oblique thin section. (10–11) Moltkia sp., MB K 2983 # 1. 10. surface. 11. surface, detail. Scale bars: 1 mm.