48 CALCAREOUS ALGAE OF THE MIDDLE EAST 



well, Qatar Peninsula ; from the Palaeocene of Jebel Faiyah, Trucial Oman ; and 

 from the Palaeocene of the Batinah Coast, Oman. 



Remarks. This species was first described in great detail by Pia (1936b), his 

 material coming from the Trichinopoly Danian, India (now regarded as Palaeocene). 

 The Middle East material confirms his description, and also his reconstruction of the 

 exterior, as all his material was in thin-section. His delightful reconstruction of the 

 living algae in association with others [op. cit., fig. 43) appears reasonable from the 

 extensive Middle East material studied. It should be noted that for algae at any 

 rate, the Tethyan Palaeocene appears to commence immediately after the Maes- 

 trichtian, the flora (including D. savitriae) extending up into the Lower Eocene ; 

 this point is discussed in more detail later in this work. 



Genus EOGONIOLINA Endo 



1953a Eogoniolina johnsoni Endo : 97-104, pi. 9, figs. 5-10. 

 i960 Engoniolina johnsoni Endo [lapsus calami) ; Elliott : 219. 



Remarks. As described by Endo, the Permian Eogoniolina was a club-shaped 

 dasyclad with a lower, long cylindrical stem-like portion which extended up to a 

 terminal expanded globular portion : this is well-shown in his reconstruction {op. 

 cit., text-fig. p. 102). His microphotographs, however, in this and later papers, 

 usually show the pear-shaped or pyriform terminal portion only, and it was by 

 comparison with this that the species was recognized in the Iraqi Permian by me. 

 Subsequent re-study of this material shows that these specimens are in fact pyriform 

 segments of Mizzia velebitana. At both the Iraqi and Japanese localities normal 

 spherical examples of this common species are abundant. Without prejudice to 

 Endo's interpretation of his original Japanese material, the Iraqi record is therefore 

 withdrawn. Eogoniolina pamiri has been described from the Turkish Permian 

 (Giivenc 1966b). 



Genus EPIMASTOPORA Pia 1923 



Diagnosis (emend, after Endo). Similar to Pseudoepimastopora, but with rela- 

 tively long pores having the same width throughout their length. 



" Epimastopora minima Elliott " (= Tauridium sp.) 



1956 Epimastopora minima Elliott : 327, pi. 1, figs. 1, 3. 



This species was founded on fragmentary remains which occur abundantly in 

 samples from at or near the base of the Satina Formation, or the middle evaporitic 

 unit of the Chia Zairi or Iraqi Permian. The original remains are almost comminu- 

 ted, and a re-examination in the light of subsequent studies on Epimastopora and 

 Pseudoepimastopora suggested that the original generic allocation is doubtful. The 

 description of the codiacid genus Tauridium (Guvenc 1966a) shows clearly that the 

 Iraqi fossils are debris of a species of this genus, and not remains of a dasyclad. 



