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Aulocystella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Auloporida
    Superfamily:  
Auloporicae
    Family:  
Aulocystiidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Aulocystella Kuzina in SOKOLOV, 1955, p. 222
    Type Species:  
A. syringoporoides, OD; +not traced


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Fossil Image
Fig. 440,1a-c. *A. syringoporoides, Donbas, right bank of R. Sklevata, below Veselogo farm, Beshevskiy reg., a, b, long., c, transv. secs., X4.0 (Sokolov, 1955)


Synonyms

Aulocystella


Geographic Distribution

Eu.(Donbas-S.Urals)-Asia(China)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.(Visean)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
346.73
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.(Visean)
    Ending International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
330.34


Description

Corallum a small cluster of moderately long, radiating and rather widely separated cylindrical corallites with slightly thickened walls, increase lateral, offsets, of same diameter as parent, project widely at first then rapidly become radial to corallum, no connecting tubuli, tabulae of two series, a peripheral series of tabellae forming wide syrinx with their conjoined inner parts and an axial series of narrow, subhorizontal tabellae crossing the syrinx, septal spinules inconstant, present on walls and tabellae




References



Museum or Author Information

Sokolov, 1955