Actinacis ? remesi Felix, 1903 a

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

Actinacis? remesi Felix, 1903 a

Plate 11: figs 3–5

? * 1903 a Actinacis Remesi – Felix: 567, text-figs 1, 2.

v 1911 Actinacis Remesi – Trauth: 75, text-fig. 4, pl. 4, fig. 1.

v 1921 Actinacis Remesi Felix – Zuffardi-Comerci: 11, pl. 2, figs 1, 2.

v 1957 Actinacis vignyensis n. sp. – Alloiteau: pl. 18, fig. 9 [= nom. nud.].

v 2000 Actinacis remesi Felix, 1903 – Baron-Szabo: 119, pl. 10, figs 3, 6.

v 2013 Actinacis magna Alloiteau 1958 – Löser, Castro and Nieto: 27, pl. 9, figs 5, 6.

v 2019 Actinacis sp. 2 – Löser, Heinrich and Schuster: 306, figs 499 a, b.

v 2022 Actinacis? remesi Felix, 1903 – Löser and Callapez: 157, figs 7. j – l.

Material.

LFU 8336 SG 015228 # 2; one thin section.

Dimensions.

( LFU 8336 SG 015228 # 2).

Remarks.

The material can clearly be assigned to the genus Actinacis , but could not be assigned to an existing species with certainty. Closely related is material labelled as ” Actinacis vignyensis Alloiteau, 1957 ” ( MNHN; but never formally described) and material labelled as Actinacis remesi Felix, 1903 ( NHMW, coll. Trauth; PU, coll. Zuffardi-Comerci) from the Eocene of Klokocov ( Moravia, Czech Republic) and the Turonian of Libya, but the type of Actinacis remesi itself is unknown.

Other occurrences.

Upper Albian of the Western Tethys ( Spain), Turonian of North Africa ( Libya), Turonian to lower Coniacian of the Western Tethys ( Portugal, Spain), middle Santonian of the Central Tethys ( Austria), upper Campanian to Maastrichtian of the Arabian Peninsula ( United Arab Emirates), Palaeocene to Eocene of the European Boreal ( France, Czech Republic).

Figures

Plate 11. (1–2) Aulosmilia aff. magnifica (Duncan, 1870). LFU 8336 SG 015003. 1. Transversal thin section. 2. Longitudinal thin section. (3–5) Actinacis? remesi Felix, 1903. LFU 8336 SG 015228 # 2. 3. Transversal thin section. 4. Transversal thin section, detail. 5. Longitudinal thin section. (6–7) Actinacis sp., BSPG 1947 XVI 78. 6. Transversal thin section. 7. Transversal thin section, detail. (8–10) Aulastraeoporidae indet. 1, BSPG 1947 XVI 66. 8. Transversal thin section. 9. Transversal thin section, detail. 10. Longitudinal thin section. Scale bars: 1 mm.