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Amsassia
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Chaetetida
Family:
Cryptolichenaridae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Amsassia Sokolov & MIRONOVA, 1959, p. 1151
Type Species:
*A. radugini Mironova in Sokolov & MIRONOVA, 1959, p. 1152, OD; +511 A-2, coll. 902, SNIIGGIMS, Novosibirsk
Images
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Fig. 334,3a,b. *A. radugini Mironova, holotype, low. U.Ord.(Amsass Suite), W.Sib., Shoria Mts., a, b, transv., long. secs., X4 (Sokolov& Mironova, 1959).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Shoria Mts.-Salair-Altay Mts.-N.Kazakh.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Ord.
Beginning International Stage:
Dapingian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
471.26
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Ord.
Ending International Stage:
Hirnantian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
443.07
Description
Corallum phacelocerioid, lumpy nodular or hemispherical, of medium size, corallites long, uniform, either completely adpressed and of polygonal transverse section, or more or less adjoining and of oval outline with triangular spaces between corallites, walls comparatively thin, quite independent, compact, homogeneous, without pores or connecting tabuli, septa absent, increase bipartite, by conjunction of axial ends of symmetrically arranged wall processes, commonly one of the processes is significantly longer than the other, tabulae horizontal, complete, for the most part rare. [Possibly tetradiinan].
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Chaetetida
Family:
Cryptolichenaridae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Amsassia Sokolov & MIRONOVA, 1959, p. 1151
Type Species:
*A. radugini Mironova in Sokolov & MIRONOVA, 1959, p. 1152, OD; +511 A-2, coll. 902, SNIIGGIMS, Novosibirsk
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 334,3a,b. *A. radugini Mironova, holotype, low. U.Ord.(Amsass Suite), W.Sib., Shoria Mts., a, b, transv., long. secs., X4 (Sokolov& Mironova, 1959).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Shoria Mts.-Salair-Altay Mts.-N.Kazakh.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Ord.
Beginning International Stage:
Dapingian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
471.26
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Ord.
Ending International Stage:
Hirnantian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
443.07
Description
Corallum phacelocerioid, lumpy nodular or hemispherical, of medium size, corallites long, uniform, either completely adpressed and of polygonal transverse section, or more or less adjoining and of oval outline with triangular spaces between corallites, walls comparatively thin, quite independent, compact, homogeneous, without pores or connecting tabuli, septa absent, increase bipartite, by conjunction of axial ends of symmetrically arranged wall processes, commonly one of the processes is significantly longer than the other, tabulae horizontal, complete, for the most part rare. [Possibly tetradiinan].