Salpingoporella patruliusi Bucur, 1985

Fig. 4 a-f

1985 Salpingoporella patruliusi n. sp. – Bucur, p. 81, text-fig. 4, pls. 1-3, Barremian-lower Aptian, Pădurea Craiului, Apuseni Mountains, Romania.

1992 Salpingoporella patruliusi Bucur – Bucur, p. 449, text-fig. 1, pl. 2, fig. 1-6, Barremian, Pădurea Craiului, Apuseni Mountains; pl. 2, fig. 7, Barremian–lower Aptian, Reşiţa- Moldova Nouă zone (Southern Carpathians), Romania.

1994 Salpingoporella patruliusi Bucur – Bucur, p. 155, pl. X, fig. 23-24, upper Barremian–lower Aptian, Reşiţa-Moldova Nouă zone (Southern Carpathians), Romania.

1999 Salpingoporella patruliusi Bucur – Bucur, p. 56, pl. II, fig. 1-10, Barremian, Pădurea Craiului, Apuseni Mountains, Romania.

The general dimensions of the calcareous skeleton of the Serbian specimens and the Romanian type material are also comparable (Table 1).

2001 Salpingoporella patuliusi Bucur – Bucur & Cociuba, p. 120, pl. 2, fig. 1-3, lower Barremian, Pădurea Craiului, Apuseni Mountains, Romania.

2001 Salpingoporella patruliusi Bucur – Pop & Bucur, p. 82, pl. VIII, fig. 9, upper Barremian, Vâlcan Mountains (Southern Carpathians), Romania.

2007 Salpingoporella patruliusi Bucur – Sokač, p. 84, pl. III, fig. 1-3, Upper Barremian, Biokovo Mountains (Dinaric Karst, Croatia).

2008 Salpingoporella patruliusi Bucur 1985 – Sokač & Grgasović, p. 262, pl. V, fig. 1-6, pl. VI, fig. 1-4, upper Barremian, Dinaric Karst, Croatia.

The specimens identified in Eastern Serbia present clear similarities with the type specimens: a narrow axial cavity with respect to the external diameter of the thallus; ellongated phloiophorous laterals with euspondyl arrangement and tilted to the central stem; calcification forming a distinct sheath around the axis and the laterals. Initially, the age of the limestones from the type locality (Pădurea Craiului) was attributed to the Barremian–lower Aptian. Subsequently, Bucur & Cociuba (2001) reassigned it to the lower Barremian. It is difficult to estimate the age of the specimens from the Reșița-Moldova Nouă zone (Bucur, 1994). However, a late Barremian age could be presumed (the lower part of the Valea Minișului Formation). In the Vâlcan Mountains (Pop & Bucur, 2001), Salpingoporella patruliusi is associated with Montseciella arabica Henson, an orbitolinid that characterizes the upper Barremian to lowermost Bedoulian (Schroeder et al., 2010, fig. 3). Finally, Sokač & Grgasović, (2008) indicate a late Barremian age for the Dinaric Karst limestones containing Salpingoporella patruliusi . Summarizing, Salpingoporella patruliusi is well known from Barremian strata.