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Agetolites
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Agetolitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Agetolites SOKOLOV, 1955, p. 150
Type Species:
A. mirabilis, OD
Images
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Fig. 373, 2a,b. *A. mirabilis, holotype, Kazakh., SW. foot-hills Chingiz Ra.; a,b, transv., long. sees., X3.6 (Sokolov, 1955).
Synonyms
Hemiagetolites
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Kazakh.-Tadzhik.-Uzbek.-China)-N.Am.(Alaska); U.Ord. or ?L.Sil., Australia(N.Queensl)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Ord.
Beginning International Stage:
Sandbian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
458.18
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Ord.
Ending International Stage:
Hirnantian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
443.07
Description
Corallum hemispherical, nodular, pyriform or cylindrical, cerioid, corallites prismatic; common walls with sinuous median suture; septa alternately long and short thin plates with long axial parts spinose; tabulae horizontal, or convex or concave, commonly complete; pores at or near angles between corallites, rounded and numerous, commonly opening simultaneously into three adjacent corallites.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Agetolitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Agetolites SOKOLOV, 1955, p. 150
Type Species:
A. mirabilis, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 373, 2a,b. *A. mirabilis, holotype, Kazakh., SW. foot-hills Chingiz Ra.; a,b, transv., long. sees., X3.6 (Sokolov, 1955).
Synonyms
Hemiagetolites
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Kazakh.-Tadzhik.-Uzbek.-China)-N.Am.(Alaska); U.Ord. or ?L.Sil., Australia(N.Queensl)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Ord.
Beginning International Stage:
Sandbian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
458.18
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Ord.
Ending International Stage:
Hirnantian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
443.07
Description
Corallum hemispherical, nodular, pyriform or cylindrical, cerioid, corallites prismatic; common walls with sinuous median suture; septa alternately long and short thin plates with long axial parts spinose; tabulae horizontal, or convex or concave, commonly complete; pores at or near angles between corallites, rounded and numerous, commonly opening simultaneously into three adjacent corallites.