Faksephyllia
Creators: name: Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Caryophylliidae
Faksephyllia

description: 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
description: 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