. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. 18 P. D. TAYLOR. Fig. 25 Elea lamellosa (d'Orbigny, 1850), BMNH D59202, Santonian, Craie de Villedieu, Bouchardiere Member Villedieu, France; de-roofed gonozooid exposing entrance to maternal zooid and atrial ring, x 45. apertural width: mean = 0-06 mm; SD = 0-009 mm; CV = 16-6; range = 0-05-0-08 mm gonozooids (6 zooids from sample BMNH D59163) total frontal length: distal frontal wall length: frontal width: ooeciopore length: ooeciopore width: range = 2-22-2-63 mm range = 1-86-2-25 mm range = 1-10-1-31 mm range = 0-08-0-11 mm range
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. 18 P. D. TAYLOR. Fig. 25 Elea lamellosa (d'Orbigny, 1850), BMNH D59202, Santonian, Craie de Villedieu, Bouchardiere Member Villedieu, France; de-roofed gonozooid exposing entrance to maternal zooid and atrial ring, x 45. apertural width: mean = 0-06 mm; SD = 0-009 mm; CV = 16-6; range = 0-05-0-08 mm gonozooids (6 zooids from sample BMNH D59163) total frontal length: distal frontal wall length: frontal width: ooeciopore length: ooeciopore width: range = 2-22-2-63 mm range = 1-86-2-25 mm range = 1-10-1-31 mm range = 0-08-0-11 mm range = 0-17-0-20 mm Remarks. Elea lamellosa is an extremely abundant bryo- zoan in the Coniacian-Santonian calcarenites of the Loire region, notably the Craie de Villedieu, and in approximately contemporaneous deposits in the Aquitaine Basin, for example at Saintes. It is the only bifoliate melicerititid to occur commonly in these beds, in which dendroid forms such as Meliceritites magnifica, M. ornata and M. tuberosa tend to dominate (Fig. 3). The foliaceous shape ('eschariform') of the colonies contrasts with most other bifoliate melicerititids which have strap-like branches ('adeoniform'). Although present in several species of Meliceritites and also in Semielea vieilbanci, no other species of Elea possess small eleozooids with inverted T-shaped apertures. These trifoliozooids are the principal means of distinguishing between E. lamellosa and the closely similar but stratigraphically younger E. pseudolamellosa (p. 30).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). London : BM(NH)
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