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Aulina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Lithostrotionina
    Family:  
Lithostrotionidae
    Subfamily:  
Aulininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Aulina SMITH, 1917, p. 290
    Type Species:  
A. rotiformis, OD, †R 17497, BM(NH), LONDON, and parts A1801-2, A2406, SM, Cambridge


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Fig. 252,1a,b. *A. rotiformis, Namur.,mathrm{E}_{2}, Linn Spout Ls., Scot., near Dalry, a, b, transv., long. secs., X3 (Hill, 1938-1941).-Fig. 252,1c. A. senex, holotype, Namur., Upper Ls. Ser., E2, superior beds, Scot., Glencart, near Dalry, transv. sec., X3 (Hill, 1938-1941).


Synonyms

A. (Pseudoaulina)


Geographic Distribution

Eu. (U.K.-Eire-France-?Ger.-Donbas-N. Zemlya)-Asia(Kuzbas-Japan-China-Viet Nam), U. Miss.(Meramec. or Chester.), N.Am.(Ariz.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tournaisian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
359.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Carb.(Namur.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
48.4
    Ending Date:  
319.4


Description

Cerioid, astreoid, thamnasterioid, or aphroid, corallites with aulos formed at axial ends of major septa, major and minor septa may be weakly carinate or zigzag, tabulae as axial series of horizontal tabellae and periaxial series of outwardly declined tabellae, dissepiments small, except peripherally in aphroid forms [MINATO & ROWETT, 1967b, p. 383].




References



Museum or Author Information

Hill, 1938, Hill, 1938