Oculina conferta Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., Schlagintweit, Felix & Rashidi, Koorosh, 2023, Coral fauna across the Cretaceous- Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (7) 142 (1), pp. 1-49 : 22-23

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Fig. 11D, F.

*1850 Oculina conferta : Milne Edwards & Haime, p. 27, Pl. 2, Fig. 2 View Fig .

1857 Oculina conferta : Milne Edwards & Haime, vol. 2, p. 109.

1860 Oculina conferta : de Fromentel, p. 176.

1881 Oculina conferta : Quenstedt, p. 970, Pl. 180, Fig. 48.

1925 Oculina conferta M. Edw. et J. Haime 1850 : Felix, pars 28, p. 222 (cum synonymis).

1997 Oculina new sp.: Stemann, in Bryan et al, p. 33, Text— Fig. 2A. View Fig

v1998 Oculina conferta Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 : Turnšek & Drobne, p. 136, Pl. 5, Figs. 1–4. View Fig View Fig View Fig View Fig

v2006 Oculina conferta Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 : Baron-Szabo, p. 65, Pl. 13, Fig. 5 View Fig .

Dimensions. d: 1.6 ‒ 2 mm, in areas of intense budding around 1 mm; s: 14–24 (+ s), in corallites in areas of intense budding 12.

Description. Dendro-phaceloid; corallites bud off nearly rectangular; septa compact, developed in irregular septal cycles, covered by spiniform and rounded granules laterally; costae short or absent; pali irregularly present; wall septothecal.

Type locality of species. Lower Eocene of England (London Clay) .

Distribution. Paleocene of the USA (Alabama), Tanetian of Slovenia (Adriatic Platform), Selandian ‒ Tanetian of Iran (this paper, Sistan Suture Zone, eastern Iran; Suture Zagros Zone, southwestern Iran), Lower Eocene of England.

New material. 1pz92 (13), 2pz94 (10, 18), BN ‒ 59 ‒ N1 (4 ‒ II) (all from Sistan Suture Zone, eastern Iran); Qs27 (1), Os87 (37), Qs93 (19) (all form Zagros Zone, southwestern Iran).

Family Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847

Genus Lobopsammia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848d

Type species. Lithodendron cariosum Goldfuss, 1826 , Eocene of France (subsequent designation by Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850).

Diagnosis. Colonial, dendroid, forming small arborescent colonies by di- and tristomodaeal intracalicular budding. Corallites often irregularly shaped or elongate in outline. Septa subcompact to porous. Wall synapticulothecal, costate. Costae granular and serrate by deep intercostal furrows. Septa arranged in Pourtalès plan. Columella trabecular, mesh ‒ like or made of twisted and elongate segments. Endotheca sparsely present or absent. Epitheca sensu lato present at base.