Acropora bancellsae Álvarez-Pérez, 1997

Acropora bancellsae Álvarez-Pérez, 1997

Fig. 10F–H.

*1997 Acropora bancellsae n. sp.: Álvarez-Pérez, p. 299–300, Pl. 2, Figs. 1–2 View Fig View Fig .

Dimensions. db: 1.4 ‒ 3 mm; d (axial corallite): 0.7 ‒ 1.2 mm; d (secondary corallite): 0.3 ‒ 0.6 mm; s (axial corallite): 12 (+ s); s (secondary corallite): 6 (+ s).

Description. Branching colony; corallites irregularly circular in outline; secondary corallites usually have 6 ‒ 10 septa.

Type locality of species. Middle Eocene (Bartonian) of Spain (La Tossa Fm.) .

Distribution. Upper Maastrichtian and SelandianTanetian of Iran (this paper; Zagros Zone, Tarbur Fm., southwestern Iran; Sistan Suture Zone, eastern Iran), Middle Eocene (Bartonian) of Spain (La Tossa Fm.).

New material. BN40 ‒ c (19, 24, 25), BN41 ‒ a (1), BN41 ‒ a (1 ‒ 6, 11), BN41 ‒ c; BN41 ‒ c (11), BN46 ‒ a (1, 2, 6), BN46 ‒ b (5), BN53 (21), BN56 ‒ b (18), BN59 ‒ N1 (8, 15), BN63 (6, 8 ‒ 10), BN64 (2, 16), P3171291–98; Pb62 (7), PL ‒ 2 (32– 34, 37–39) (all from Sistan Suture Zone, eastern Iran); 2NG122 (30–31), 2NG127 (13, 16, 18–21), 2NG127 ‒ 2 (1, 12), 2NG127 ‒ 3 (1, 3, 5–6, 8–9), 2NG127 ‒ 4 (1, 3–8, 15–16), 2NG127 ‒ 5 (2–5, 8), 2NG147 (30), 2NG202 (2), 2NG202 (10), NG113 (32) (all from Tarbur Formation, southwestern Iran, Zagros Zone).

Remarks. With regard to both corallite arrangements and thecal developments, the Iranian material shows affinities to species such as A. rongelapensis Richards & Wallace, 2004 , and forms of the humilis -group (sensu Wallace, et al., 2020).