. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). . Remarks. Branch fragments of M transversa are abundant at Faringdon. Zooecial size and branch diameter are interme- diate between the two other common Faringdon melicerititids, M. dendroidea and M. cunningtoni. The species is readily distinguished from the much rarer M. gracilis by the well- rounded apertures. M. transversa has previously been regarded (Walter & Busnardo 1971; Walter et al. 1975) as a junior synonym of M. haimeana (d'Orbigny), and Voigt (1981) has figured a Faringdon specimen under this latter name. However, t
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). . Remarks. Branch fragments of M transversa are abundant at Faringdon. Zooecial size and branch diameter are interme- diate between the two other common Faringdon melicerititids, M. dendroidea and M. cunningtoni. The species is readily distinguished from the much rarer M. gracilis by the well- rounded apertures. M. transversa has previously been regarded (Walter & Busnardo 1971; Walter et al. 1975) as a junior synonym of M. haimeana (d'Orbigny), and Voigt (1981) has figured a Faringdon specimen under this latter name. However, the synonymy is not well supported. The specimens of M. haimeana figured by d'Orbigny (1853: pi. 617, figs 11-14) are either indeterminate or appear much more like M. dendroidea than M. transversa. Unfortunately, d'Orbigny's type speci- mens (MNHN d'Orbigny Colin 6021) are missing from the tablet to which they were originally attached. The type locality is given as Grandpre, an Albian locaHty no longer available. M. transversa has not been recorded at this strati- graphical level elsewhere. Family incertae sedis Genus BERENICE A' Lamouroux, 1821 Following Taylor & Sequieros (1982), the generic designation 'Berenicea' is used informally for species of bereniciform tubuloporines in which the gynozooecium is unknown {Bereni- cea Lamouroux, 1821 is a nomen dubium). Reassignment of at least some of these species is anticipated after discovery of their gynozooecia. 'Berenices' filifera Canu & Bassler, 1926 Fig. 102 1926 Berenicea filifera Canu & Bassler : 11; pi. 29, figs 3-4. HOLOTYPE. USNM 69848, figd by Canu & Bassler (1926: pi. 29, figs 3-^). Description. The zoarium is thin and unilamellar, berenici- form, with an irregular outline. Autozooecial apertures are of moderate size, circular or slightly longitudinally elongate, very widely spaced in irregular quincunx, with thick, slightly raised peristomes up to 0-3 mm high where preserved in a hollow. Frontal walls ar
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