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Atelodictyon

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Hydrozoa
    Order:  
Stromatoporoidea
    Family:  
Actinostromatidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Atelodictyon LECOMPTE, 1951
    Type Species:  
A. fallax


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Figs. 93,2; 104,2. ·A. tallax, M. Dev.(Couvin.), Belg.; 93,2, tang. sec., X12; 104, 2, long. sec., XI2 (49·).


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Geographic Distribution

Belg.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Dev.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Eifelian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
394.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Givetian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
378.9


Description

Coenosteum laminar or globular, pillars typically superposed with appearance of continuity, lamellae in a subhexactinellid network or showing cellular to chainlike structure, astrorhizae in vertical systems, fibers compact. (Superficially, coenosteum structure resembles that of forms commonly assigned to Clathrodictyon. which have pillars not subordinate to lamellae, however.)




References

Lecompte, M., 1951-52, Les stromatoporoīdes du Dévonien moyen et supérieur du bassin de Dinant: Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg., pt. 1 Lecompte, M., , mém. 116, p. 1-215, pl. 1-35; pt. 2 Lecompte, M., , mém. 117, p. 216-359, pl. 36-70.


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