ABHANDLUNGEN BAND 68 ROSEMARIE CHRISTINE BARON-SZABO HELVETIC UNIT; AUSTROALPINE UNITS; RHENODANUBIAN UNIT; N DINARIC PLATFORM; INNER DINARIDES), WITH REMARKS ON RELATED TAXA ( SCLERACTINIAN CORALS FROM THE CRETACEOUS OF THE ALPS AND N DINARIDES SCLERACTINIAN CORALS FROM THE CRETACEOUS Geologische Bundesanstalt Cover images Layout by Monika Brüggemann-Ledolter 5 1 Astrogyra edwardsi (Reuss, 1854) Page 29 | Plate 16 1 2 Placosmilia gracilis (Felix, 1903a) Page 34 | Plate 24 3 Flabellosmilia subcarinatum (Reuss, 1854) Page 43 | Plate 42 4 4 Columastrea striata (Goldfuss, 1826) Page 38 | Plate 32 5 Pachygyra daedalea (Reuss, 1854) Page 43 | Plate 44 3 2 www.geologie.ac.at Address of the author: Smithsonian Institution, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, MRC-163, W-205, Washington, DC, 20013, United States of America E-mail: [email protected] and Research Institute Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Recommended citation Baron-Szabo, R.C. (2014): Scleractinian Corals from the Cretaceous of the Alps and Northern Dinarides with remarks on related taxa. – Abh. Geol. B.-A., 68, 296 p., Vienna. ADUBHAN L NGEN DER GEOLOGISCHEN BUNDESANSTALT, BAND 68 ISSN 0378-0864 ISBN 978-3-85316-074-9 Alle Rechte für In- und Ausland vorbehalten. Medieninhaber, Herausgeber und Verleger: Geologische Bundesanstalt, Neulinggasse 38, A 1030 Wien. Redaktion: Hans Egger & Christoph Janda. Lektorat: Benjamin Sames. Verlagsort: Wien. Herstellungsort: Bad Vöslau. Ziel der "Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt" ist die Dokumentation und Verbreitung erdwissenschaftlicher Forschungsergebnisse. Satz, Gestaltung und Druckvorbereitung: Markus Kogler. Druck: Grasl Druck & Neue Medien GmbH. Editorial Since the year 2007, one of the main activities of the department of Paleontology at the Geological Survey of Austria is research on type specimens in the vast collections of our institution. The first documentation of this effort is a special vol- ume of the yearbook of the survey published in 2010. It contains eight papers dealing with type material of different fossil groups and was dedicated to Herbert Stradner, one of the pioneers in calcareous nannoplankton research. In the follow- ing years, papers on Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous cephalopod specimens and an additional paper on brachiopods were printed in the same periodical. For most of these fossil groups there is no expertise anymore at the survey, and the situation gets worse and worse as the department lost half of its academic staff by retirement during the last few years. Therefore, we highly depend on the co-operation of external national and international researchers, and we gratefully ac- knowledge the wide commitment and continuing activity of many colleagues in this respect. The idea to the volume at hand arose from such co-operation. I met Dr. Rosemarie Baron-Szabo two years ago. Rosemarie is one of the leading specialists in Cretaceous scleractian corals, and responsible for the planned volume on this group in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. She works as a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC, USA) and as a Honorary Researcher at the Sencken- berg Research Institute (Frankfurt, Germany). We are very pleased and happy that Rosemarie agreed to author a mono- graph on Cretaceous corals from the Eastern Alps and adjacent areas. This publication deals with about one third of all scleractinian genera known from the Cretaceous and will become an important reference publication for the Cretaceous marine fossil record of the area, and for the revised Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology volume. Many colleagues helped to accomplish this publication. In particular, I would like to express my gratitude to Monika Brüggemann-Ledolter for designing the envelope of the book, to Markus Kogler for lay-outing the entire publication, to Benjamin Sames and Christian Cermak for proof-reading the text, to Ilka Wünsche for assistance in the collections, and to Irene Zorn for preparing the specimens for study in our collection and for cross-checking the inventory numbers, the species names, the type status and the localities of GBA material. Hans Egger Head Department of Paleontology ABHANDLUNGEN DER GEOLOGISCHEN BUNDESANSTALT Abh. Geol. B.-A. ISSN 0378-0864 ISBN 978-3-85316-074-9 Band 68 S. 1–296 Wien, November 2014 Scleractinian Corals from the Cretaceous of the Alps and Northern Dinarides with remarks on related taxa Scleractinian Corals from the Cretaceous of the Alps and Northern Dinarides with remarks on related taxa by ROSEMARIE CHRISTINE BARON-SZABO 22 Text-Figures, 88 Plates Contents Abstract ................................................................................................. 9 1. Acknowledgements....................................................................................... 9 2. Introduction............................................................................................ 10 3. Material ............................................................................................... 10 4. Stratigraphy and lithology of the localities of the Alps and Dinarides . 11 4.1. Helvetic Unit....................................................................................... 11 4.1.1 Helvetic occurrences ............................................................................. 11 4.1.2 Lithology and paleoenvironment..................................................................... 12 4.2. Austroalpine-Unit ................................................................................... 13 4.2.1 Cenomanian .................................................................................... 13 4.2.2 Turonian—Maastrichtian ........................................................................... 13 4.3 Santonian-Campanian of Slovenia ...................................................................... 14 4.4. Rhenodanubian Unit . 14 4.5. Dinarides ......................................................................................... 15 4.5.1 Northern Dinaric Carbonate Platform . 15 4.5.2 Inner Dinarides .................................................................................. 15 5. Glossary of morphological terms applied to corals .............................................................. 15 6. Classification........................................................................................... 18 7. Stratigraphical and geographical ranges...................................................................... 18 8. Systematic Paleontology.................................................................................. 19 Order Scleractinia BOURNE, 1900 .......................................................................... 19 Suborder Astrocoeniina VAUGHAN & WELLS, 1943 ............................................................ 19 Family Actinastreidae ALLOITEAU, 1952a.................................................................. 19 Genus Actinastrea D’ORBIGNY, 1849 ................................................................... 19 Subgenus Texastrea WELLS, 1973................................................................... 20 Genus Columactinastrea ALLOITEAU, 1952a............................................................... 21 Family Acroporidae VERRILL, 1902 ...................................................................... 21 Genus Paretallonia SIKHARULIDZE, 1972................................................................. 21 5 Suborder Faviina VAUGHAN & WELLS, 1943.................................................................. 22 Family Mussidae ORTMANN, 1890 (= Faviidae GREGORY, 1900b; = Hemiporitidae ALLOITEAU, 1952a, p.p.) ................ 22 Genus Eugyra DE FROMENTEL, 1857................................................................... 22 Subgenus Felixigyra PREVER, 1909 . 22 Genus Myriophyllia D’ORBIGNY, 1849................................................................... 23 Genus Cycloria REUSS, 1854 ........................................................................ 23 Genus Liptodendron ELIÁšOVÁ, 1991a .................................................................. 24 Genus Ovalastrea D’ORBIGNY, 1849 ................................................................... 24 Family Merulinidae VERRILL, 1865....................................................................... 25 Genus Hydnophora FISCHER VON WALDHEIM, 1807......................................................... 25 Genus Diplogyra EGUCHI, 1936....................................................................... 26 Genus Nefocoenia OppENHEIM, 1930a.................................................................. 26 Genus Cladocora EHRENBERG, 1834 . 27 Family Placocoeniidae ALLOITEAU, 1952a ................................................................. 27 Genus Placocoenia D’ORBIGNY, 1849 .................................................................. 28 Genus Neocoenia HACKEMESSER, 1936 ................................................................. 28 Subgenus Placocaeniopsis ALLOITEAU, 1952a ........................................................... 28 Genus Astrogyra FELIX, 1901 ........................................................................ 29 Genus Taxogyra WELLS, 1937........................................................................ 29 Genus Columnocoenia ALLOITEAU, 1952a ................................................................ 30 Family Montlivaltiidae DIETRICH, 1926...................................................................