Alloiteausmilia boudaharensis Beauvais, 1986

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Alloiteausmilia boudaharensis Beauvais, 1986: 16, pl. 3, fig. 3 and text-fig. 8-9. — Vasseur 2018: 114-115, fig. 3.4.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype MNHN.F.R11603. TYPE HORIZON. — Pliensbachian. TYPE LOCALITY. — Beni Tadjit, Morocco. STUDIED SAMPLES. — Two specimens: holotype MNHN.F.R11603; CPUN DA2905E1’-1. GEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES. — Pliensbachian of High Atlas in Morocco ( Dades Valley, Beni Tadjit).

DESCRIPTION

Solitary coral with circular to elliptical calice. Radial elements are septa generally flexuous, free or joined by their inner edge, compact, commonly with a rhopaloid inner edge when free. Lateral faces seem sometimes smooth, sometimes irregularly granulated and septa appear to grow by successive deposits of stereome layers providing a lamellar aspect in transverse section as for the genus Archaeosmilia Melnikova, 1975 . No columella nor synapticulae.Endotheca made of large vesicular dissepiments in continuity with septal thickening. The curved septa and fossa elongation seem to define a bilateral symmetry. An epitheca s.l of undefined nature enwraps the corallite. Calicular diameter: approximately 45 mm – Number of septa: 41 to 68 (this last value according toBeauvais 1986)– Septal density: 3 to 5 for 5 mm.