A NEW DASYOLADACEAN ALGA IN THE URGONIAN LIMESTONES FROM PADUREA CRAIULUI (APUSENI MOUNTAINS): SALPINGOPORELLA PATRULIUST nh. sp. IOAN 1. BUCUR L‘étude micropaléontologique des calcaires du Crétacé imférieur des Monts Padurea Craiului (zone de Cornet) a eu comme résultat Pidentification Pune algue Dasycladacée que je considére dans cette note, comme une nouvelle espace du genre Sulpingopo- relta, Léchantillon a Satpingoporella patruliusi n. sp. a éte récolté des caleaires & Pachyodontes iniérieurs de Valea Ticasului (4 Vorigine de Valea Poieni), @age Barre- mien-Aptien inférieur (Patrulius, in Ianoviei et al., 1976). In two previous notes (Bucur, 1980 —1981 ; 1981) we described an assemblage of calcareous algae and a new species of Dasycladaceae from the Lower Pachyodont Limestone of the Cornet zone ey Craiului Mountains). The dasyladacean alga considered in the present paper, which is regarded as a new species of the genus Salpingoporella, has been identi- fied. in the same intrabiosparitic limestones, of Barremian-Lower Aptian age (Patrulius, in Ianovici et al., 1976), that were accumulated in an,exter- nal infralittoral environment. Family DASYCLADAGEAE Katzing 1843 Genus Salpingoporella Pia 1918 Salpingoporella patruliusi n,, sp. Text-figure 15 Pl, ITT Holotype. Specimen illustrated in Pl. I, fig. 1, provided by sample 355, thin section N.T. 1650, belonging to the author’s. collection at the “Babes-Bolyai” University, Chair of Geology-Mineralogy. Paratypes. Specimens illustrated in Pl. I, fig. 2—4; Pl. Uy, fig. 1-3; and Pl. TI, fig. 1—5, provided by the same sample. Derivatio nominis. The new species is dedicated to the memory of late doctor Dan Patrulius, one of the first Romanian researchers on calea- reous algae, an outstanding paleontologist and ‘stratigrapher, who worked out the detailed stratigraphy of the Mesozoic iortetaens: from the Padu- rea Craiului Mountains. Type locality. Ticasului valley, confluent of Poieni. valley, Cornet, Padurea Craiului Mountains. oe Type jevel. The Lower Pachyodont limestone,, Barremian- Lower Aptian: Rev: Roum, Géol. Géophys., et Géour., GEOLOGIE, Tome 29, P. 81-84, 1985, Bucarest 6c. 139382 IOAN 2. BUCUR 2 Diagnosis: - Relatively large cylindrical thallus, unbranched | and ented, with a narrow stipe. The primary, phloiophorous branches are arranged in alternating whorls, regularly spatiated, 7—9 on a whorl. Fig. 1, —Salpingoporellie, patraliusi n.spy Reconstructed model. a). longitudinal, @®,,, ») tangential-vertical, e) perpendicular section. The btatiches are tilted’ with respect to the stipe and are surrounded by a relatively thick ¢alcareous sheath. In their distal portion the branches are compressed, showing a rhombic, less commonly polygonal outline. Dimensions. L (maximum observable) = 5.12 mm. D = 1.10—2.30 mm (mean = 1.48 mm). d = 0.11 —0.28 mm (0.24: mm). da/D = 0.10—0.24 (0.15). 1 = 0.56—1.00 mm (0.77 mm). p (distal) = 0.16—0.31 mm (0.22 mm). p (proximal) = 0.040 —0.078 mm (0.062 mm). h = 0.22—0.28 mm (0.26 mm). w=T-9. Description. Salpingoporella patruliusi n. sp. is characterized by its narrow stipe compared to the external diameter of the thallus, by the low number of branches on a whorl and by. their tilting against the stipe. The. vase-shaped branches are communicating with the stipe by means of # relatively large pore (PI. I, fig. 1—4 ; Pl. II, fig. 1). They are gradually widening towards their distal end, where they display most frequently a rhombic shape in.vertical sections caused by their reciprocal compression (Pl. I, fig. 1; Pl. TH, figs. 1—5). The calcareous sheath is. surrounding the stipe as well as every branch nearly up to its end. The terminal portions of the branches are uncalcified. Around the pranches the calcification gave rise to a relatively thick sheath (0.055 —0.095 mm), usually very distinct because of a micritic envelope, by which it is bound- ed (PI. I, fig. 1; PL. TH, figs. 2, 3). The sheath is made either of micro- i‘Plate 1 1-4. — Salpingoporetta patruliusin. sp. — Holotype, oblique section, x 95; 2-4, — Paratypes : 2.— Longitudinal-oblique section, x 35; 3. — Perpendicular section, x 35; 4, — Perpendicular-oblique section, x 30.Se as Plate II Fig. 1—3.— Salpingoporella patruliusi n. sp. Paratypes. 1. — Longitudinal-tangential section, x 35; 2. — Oblique-tangential section, x +35; 3. — Oblique section, x 35.Plate III Fig. 1—5.— Salpingoporella patruliusi n. sp. Paratypes. 1, 5. — Oblique sections, x 35; 2.— Obliquesection, x 25; 3—4. — Tangential sections, x 35; Fig. 6. — Salpingoporella ef. patruliusi n. sp. Perpendicular-oblique section, x 65.Plate IV Fig, 1. — Pseudoactinoporella silvaeregis Bucur, x 48. Fig, 2. —-Salpingoporella muehlbergii (Lorenz), x 48. Fig. 3. — Pfenderina cf. globosa Foury, 48. Fig. 4.— Pfenderina cf, globosa Foury and Cuneolina camposauri Sartoni et Crescenti, x 48,3 DASYCLADACEAN ALGA 83 sparite of 5—8, microns,. or, more rarely, of a sparite ( ?psendosparite)iot 15-40 microns, and has.a darker, tint as compared to the sparite that fills the pores of the rock. Frequently, some thalli are in a state «of advariced micritization, (Pl. IH, figs. 1, 4,5), The diagenetic processes led sometimes to. the deposition of suceessive calcitic layers on the inner side of the Bran- ches, which may. be, observed, in sections perpendicular. through! ¢hem (Pl. EI, figs, 2,.3)., The sections perpendicular through the. thallys (PRA, figs. 3,4; ?Pl. LIT, fig. 6) cut the branches of two-or three adjoining whorls, emphasizing their inclined disposition against the stipe. Text-figure 1 represents by means of a reconstructed model the aspect of the branches. in. a longitudinal (a), tangential-vertical (b) and perpendicular (c) seetion through the thallus. Similarities end differences. Salpingoporella patruliusi n. Sp. belongs to the third assemblage separated by, Bassoullet et al. (1978) within the genus Salpingoporella, which comprises species of relatively large thallus : Salpingoporella adriatica (Guii¢).. Salpingoporella cemi (Radoitié) and Salpingoporella. turgida (Radoitié). The distinetion between 8. palruliusi n. sp..and 8. adriatica is given by the shape of the branches : they have the same aspect in longitudinal as well as in transversal sections in the first, case, being different and provid- ed by a narrow, long proximal pore in the latter (De Castio.et De Rosa, 1977). There is also'a difference in the shape of the compressed branches at their distal end : it is quadrangular, vertically elongated in the case of S. adriatica, while rhombic, or, less irequent, pelygonal:in the case of S.potruliusi a, sp.The low number of branches on a whorl, their: inclin- ed ‘position against the» stipe and, generally: smaller values of the prin- cipal measurable parameters are another features that distinguish §. patru- linsi D. 8p. from 8. adriatica. i Siwkve) Compared to S.cemi, 8. pairuliusin. sp. is characterized by the gene- ral aspect of the thallus, the lower values of d, d/D and. w, the greater length of the branches and their tilting against the Stipe. The branches are similarly shaped, but, in the case of §. cemi, their transversal sections display round, less. frequent subpolygonal, outlines (Radoiti¢, 1968). 8. patruliusi n. sp. resembles &. iwrgida because of the inclined posi- tion of the branches against the stipe. Yet, it differs greatly by the lower values of w and d and by the rhombic outline of the distally compressed branches. In addition, other parameters (1, p and h) have ecmparatively higher values. ESO Likewise, 8. pairuliusi n. sp. shows evident morphological similari- ties to 8. ewilis (Dragastan), especially as compared to the reeonstruction by De Rosa (1976). The biometrical values indicated by Dragastan (1971) and De Rosa (1976), first of all the number of branches on a, whorl, the external diameter and the parameter d/D are differetiating sharply S. exilis from S. patruliusi n. sp. The latter is characterized by significantly greater dimensions. Stratigrafic range. In sample 355, S. patruliusi n. Sp. appears in the following assemblage : S. muehlbergii (Lorenz) (P1. Iv. Tig. 2), 8. of. gene- vensis (Conrad), S. cf. ewilis (Dragastan), Pscudoactinoporelta silvaeregis Bucur (Pl. IV, fig. 1), Likanella® danilovae Radoitié, Kopetdagaria sphae-84 fOAN I. BUCUR 4 rica Maslov, Cylindroporella sp., Actinoporeila sp., Cayeuxia sp., Arabi- codium sp., Cuneolina camposauri Sartoni et Crescenti (Pl, IV, fig. 4), Tro- cholina cf. aptiensis Yovtcheva, Pseudocyclammina cf. hedbergi Mayne, Pfenderina cf. globosa Foury (P1. IV, fig. 3, 4), Melathrokerion sp., Orbito- linopsis sp., fragments of hydrozoans, bryozoans, pelecypods, small gas- tropods and echinodermal grains. The sample was taken from the Lower Pachyodont Limes tone of Barremian-Lower Aptian age (Patrulius, in Tanovici ef al., 1976; Bucur, 1980—1981 ; 1981). » Babes-Bolyai’? University, Chair of Geology Str. M. Kogdlniceanu nr. 1 53400 Ciuj-Napeca, Romania REFERENCES Bassoullet 1. P., Bernier P., Conrad M. 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