Heliopora somaliensis Gregory, 1900

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

Heliopora somaliensis Gregory, 1900

Plate 15: figs 4, 5

v 1882 Polytremacis cf. blainvilleana d’Orb. – Toula: 35, pl. 4, fig. 14.

* v 1900 Heliopora somaliensis , n. sp. – Gregory: 298, pl. 2, figs 8 a – c.

v 1911 Heliopora tenera – Trauth: 89, pl. 4, fig. 3, text-fig. 6.

v 1932 Eomontipora harrisoni , sp. n. – Gregory: 93, pl. 3, figs 1–3.

v 1948 Heliopora japonica n. sp. – Eguchi: 363, pl. 60, figs 1, 2, 5, 7.

v 1981 Polytremacis edwardsana ( Stoliczka 1873) – Turnšek and Mihajlovic: 39, pl. 48, figs 1–8.

v 1997 Polytremacis edwardsana ( Stoliczka, 1873) – Eliášová: 69, pl. 8, figs 1, 2.

v 2006 Pseudopolytremacis japonica ( Eguchi, 1948) – Löser and Ferry: 485, fig. 6.9.

v 2013 b Polytremacis? tenera ( Trauth, 1911) – Löser: 22, fig. 3.12.

v 2019 Heliopora tenera Trauth, 1911 – Löser, Heinrich and Schuster: 326, figs 532 a – c.

v 2020 Heliopora somaliensis Gregory, 1900 – Löser, Mendicoa and Fernández Mendiola: 232, figs 8 a – c.

Material.

LFU 8336 SG 015228 # 1; one thin section.

Dimensions.

( LFU 8336 SG 015228 # 1).

Other occurrences.

Lower Hauterivian of the European Boreal ( France), upper Barremian of the Western Tethys ( France), upper Barremian to lower Aptian of the Central Tethys ( Bulgaria, Serbia), lower Aptian of the Central Tethys ( Greece, Serbia) and the Western Tethys ( Spain), upper Aptian of the Western Pacific ( Japan), lower Albian of the Western Atlantic ( Mexico), upper Cenomanian of the European Boreal ( Czech Republic), Turonian of the Central Tethys ( Somalia), Coniacian to Santonian of the Central Tethys ( Austria), lower Eocene of the Central Tethys ( Somalia) and the European Boreal ( Czech Republic).

Figures

Plate 15. (1–3) Heliopora ramosa (d’Orbigny, 1849). LFU 8336 SG 015104. 1. Transversal thin section. 2. Transversal thin section, detail. 3. Longitudinal thin section. (4–5) Heliopora somaliensis Gregory, 1900. LFU 8336 SG 015228 # 1. 4. Transversal thin section. 5. Transversal thin section, detail. (6–8) Heliopora sp. 2, LFU 8336 SG 015021 # 2. 6. Transversal thin section. 7. Transversal thin section, detail. 8. Longitudinal thin section. Scale bars: 1 mm.