Faksephyllia

• Main Author: Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Caryophylliidae; Faksephyllia; Beck; Greenland; Holo; Kangilia; Lamarck
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6091545; https://zenodo.org/record/6091545

Affinities of Faksephyllia to other phaceloid-dendroid and select solitary caryophylliine genera The genus Faksephyllia shows affinities to seven colonial genera of the Caryophylliidae and several genera of other caryophylliine families that form various phaceloid-dendroid types of branching, especially to the Holocene genus Solenosmilia DUNCAN, 1873, and Lophelia MILNE EDWARDS & HAIME, 1849, the latter of which has been recorded since the (?Paleocene) Eocene (Tab. 1 and 2). The following list includes only caryophylliine genera forming branching types that are similar to the kinds seen in Faksephyllia . In addition, solitary genera are included to which specimens now interpreted to be juvenile forms of Faksephyllia were assigned ( Caryophyllia, Gardineria ) or with which fragments of Faksephyllia might be confounded ( Parasmilia )(for details see Tab. 2): PLATE 2. Figs. 1 –15 Faksephyllia faxoensis (BECK, in LYELL, 1837) Figs. 1 –3, 5 ICPUIBK WIM 6/12; Lower Oligocene of Austria (Häring Formation [Werlberg Member], located between the townships of Kundl and Wörgl, Tyrol) Fig. 1: cross view of colony, thin section; scale bar: 5.5 mm. Fig. 2: close-up of Fig. 1; scale bar: 3 mm. Fig. 3: close-up of Fig. 1; scale bar: 2.5 mm. Fig. 5: close-up of Fig. 1; scale bar: 2.7 mm. Figs. 4, 6 Topotype, PAL-ERL. m 68, BERNECKER & WEIDLICH coll.; Middle Danian of Denmark (Fakse limestone) Fig. 4: close-up of Fig. 6; photograph courtesy BERNECKER & WEIDLICH; scale bar: 1.2 mm. Fig. 6: cross view of colony, thin section; scale bar: 2.8 mm. Fig. 7 MMH 12,674, lateral view of juvenile specimen; Lower Danian of Denmark (Kangilia area, Greenland); based on the illustration in FLORIS (1972, Pl. 4, Fig. 7); scale bar: 4 mm. Fig. 8 MGU N 185/214, oblique cross/lateral view of juvenile specimen; Danian of Kazakhstan (Mangyshlak); based on the illustration in KUZMICHEVA (1987, Pl. 24, Fig. 8); scale bar: 3 mm. Figs. 9–10 MGU N 185/213, juvenile specimen; Danian of Kazakhstan (Mangyshlak) Fig. 9: cross view of corallum; based on the illustration in KUZMICHEVA (1987, Pl. 24, Fig. 7a); scale bar: 3 mm. Fig. 10: lateral view of corallum; based on the illustration in KUZMICHEVA (1987, Pl. 24, Fig. 7b); scale bar: 3 mm. Figs. 11–13 MNHN M00800; Lower Oligocene of Italy (Castelgomberto), MICHELIN coll. (labeled as Lithodendron [ Cladocora ] fusinieri Catullo]) Fig. 11: upper surface of colony; scale bar: 7 mm. Fig. 12: close-up of Fig. 11; scale bar: 2.5 mm. Fig. 13: close-up of Fig. 11; scale bar: 3.5 mm. Figs. 14–15 GIK KbE-36b; TRAGELEHN coll.: Paleocene of Austria (Kambühel limestone, Styria) Fig. 14: close-up of Fig. 15; scale bar: 3 mm. Fig. 15: cross view of colony, thin section; scale bar: 9 mm. Caryophyllia LAMARCK, 1801. Coenosmilia POURTALÈS, 1874. Gardineria VAUGHAN, 1907. Goniocorella YABE & EGUCHI, 1932. Haplophyllia POURTALÈS, 1868. Hoplangia GOSSE, 1860. Lophelia MILNE EDWARDS & HAIME, 1849. Parasmilia MILNE EDWARDS & HAIME, 1848. Pourtalosmilia DUNCAN, 1884. Rhizosmilia CAIRNS, 1978. Solenosmilia DUNCAN, 1873. Caryophylliid genera forming Stratigraphic range various phaceloid-dendroid types Pal Eo Oligo Mio Plio Pleist Holo Faksephyllia Floris, 1972? Lophelia Milne Edwards & Haime,? 1849 Goniocorella Yabe & Eguchi, 1932 Coenosmilia Pourtalès, 1874 Hoplangia Gosse, 1860 Pourtalosmilia Duncan, 1884 Rhizosmilia Cairns, 1978 Solenosmilia Duncan, 1873 : Published as part of Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2016, New taxonomic, stratigraphic, and geographic information on the genus Faksephyllia Floris, 1972 (Scleractinia; Caryophylliidae); first records from the Oligocene of Austria, Germany, and Italy, pp. 526-540 in Zootaxa 4154 (5) on pages 533-534, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.5.2, http://zenodo.org/record/267017