Publication Date:
2011-11-01
Description:
The Late Cretaceous white chalk of the Isle of Rugen, northeastern Germany, yields a highly diverse marine floral and faunal assemblage with more than 1,400 described species, including pennatulacean corals. All the new collected material, composed of fragments of the axial rods, belongs to Graphularia' quadrata Voigt, 1958, which was revised, and a new species, Graphularia' rugia. Analyses of the microstructure of axial rods of modern and fossil sea pens facilitate the discussion of the systematic relationships of the fossil material. Graphularia' quadrata shows an affinity to the Funiculinidae, whereas the new species Graphularia' rugia resembles the axial structure of the Pennatulidae.
Print ISSN:
0022-3360
Electronic ISSN:
1937-2337
Topics:
Geosciences
