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Alveolites
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Alveolitina
Family:
Alveolitidea
Subfamily:
Alveolitina
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Alveolites LAMARCK, 1801, p. 375
Type Species:
A. suborbicularis; SD NICHOLSON & ETHERIDGE, 1877, p. 356; +neotype, 260m, GOLDFUSS Coll., IP, Bonn; by SMITH, 1933b, p. 138
Images
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Fig. 399,1a. *A. suborbicularis, neotype, up.M. Dev. or U.Dev., Ger., Bensberg, transv. secs., X10 (Lecompte, 1936). --Fig. 399,1b,c. A. fecundus (Lecompte), lectotype, Givet., Belg., Durbuy, b, c, transv., long. secs., X3 (Lecompte, 1939).
Synonyms
Billingsia, Alveolitella
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Urals)-?N. Am.-Asia(Kazakh.), L.Dev.-U.Dev., cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
Beginning International Stage:
Gorstian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
426.74
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
Ending International Stage:
Ludfordian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
422.73
Description
Corallum massive, extensiform, encrusting, in some with irregular or fingerlike outgrowths, corallites reclined, long, curved, calices oblique, crescentic or irregularly angular, walls thin in basal parts of expansion and axial parts of branches, elsewhere evenly thickened, with uniserial pores, septal spines small, thin, commonly one row of larger spines related to longitudinal increase, tabulae thin, complete, increase lateral or longitudinal.
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Alveolitina
Family:
Alveolitidea
Subfamily:
Alveolitina
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Alveolites LAMARCK, 1801, p. 375
Type Species:
A. suborbicularis; SD NICHOLSON & ETHERIDGE, 1877, p. 356; +neotype, 260m, GOLDFUSS Coll., IP, Bonn; by SMITH, 1933b, p. 138
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 399,1a. *A. suborbicularis, neotype, up.M. Dev. or U.Dev., Ger., Bensberg, transv. secs., X10 (Lecompte, 1936). --Fig. 399,1b,c. A. fecundus (Lecompte), lectotype, Givet., Belg., Durbuy, b, c, transv., long. secs., X3 (Lecompte, 1939).
Synonyms
Billingsia, Alveolitella
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Urals)-?N. Am.-Asia(Kazakh.), L.Dev.-U.Dev., cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
Beginning International Stage:
Gorstian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
426.74
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
Ending International Stage:
Ludfordian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
422.73
Description
Corallum massive, extensiform, encrusting, in some with irregular or fingerlike outgrowths, corallites reclined, long, curved, calices oblique, crescentic or irregularly angular, walls thin in basal parts of expansion and axial parts of branches, elsewhere evenly thickened, with uniserial pores, septal spines small, thin, commonly one row of larger spines related to longitudinal increase, tabulae thin, complete, increase lateral or longitudinal.