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Antherolites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Favositida
    Suborder:  
Favositina
    Superfamily:  
Favositicae
    Family:  
Multisoleniidae
    Subfamily:  
Antherolitinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Antherolites SOKOLOV, 1955, p. 148
    Type Species:  
A. septosus, OD, †30, coll. 599, VNIGRI, Leningrad


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Fig. 372,la,b. *A. scptosus, holotype, Wenlock, C.Asia, Balkhash area; a,b, transv., long. secs., X4 (Sokolov, 1955).


Synonyms

Spinopora, ?Somphoporella


Geographic Distribution

Asia(Kazakh.); ?M.Sil., Asia(Shensi)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Sil.(Wenlock.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Sheinwoodian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
432.93
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Sil.(Wenlock.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Homerian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
426.74


Description

Corallum small, hemispherical calices of corallites roundly stellate in transverse section; walls thin, septa six, laminar basally; mural pores large, at edges of faces of corallites, may be on radial protuberances so that corallum appears meandroid in part in transverse section.




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