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Caliapora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Alveolitina
Family:
Alveolitidea
Subfamily:
Caliaporina
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Caliapora SCHLÜTER, 1889, p. 353
Type Species:
Alveolites battersbyi Milne-Edwards & HAIME, 1851, p. 257, M, +not traced
Images
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Fig. 404,1a,b. *C. battersbyi (Milne-Edwards& Haime), Givet., Belg., Pl. Seloignes, a, b, transv., long. secs., X2.6 (Lecompte, 1939).
Synonyms
Taouzia
Geographic Distribution
Australia(Vict.)-Asia (NE.USSR), M.Dev.(Givet.), Eu.(U.K.-Belg.-Ger.)-N.Afr. (Moroc.)-Asia (Urals-Kuzbas-C.AsiaN.Viet Nam-Gt.Khingan Ra.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Lochkovian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
419
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
359.3
Description
Corallum nodulose or with thick branches, corallites prismatic, opening almost perpendicular to surface in compressed-polygonal to semilunar, rather deep calices, walls moderately thick, thickening toward periphery of corallum, septal spines absent, but squamulae numerous, commonly back-to-back in neighboring corallites, thick proximally but attenuating distally, mural pores numerous, large, tabulae very thin, sparse, some dependent from squamulae.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Alveolitina
Family:
Alveolitidea
Subfamily:
Caliaporina
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Caliapora SCHLÜTER, 1889, p. 353
Type Species:
Alveolites battersbyi Milne-Edwards & HAIME, 1851, p. 257, M, +not traced
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 404,1a,b. *C. battersbyi (Milne-Edwards& Haime), Givet., Belg., Pl. Seloignes, a, b, transv., long. secs., X2.6 (Lecompte, 1939).
Synonyms
Taouzia
Geographic Distribution
Australia(Vict.)-Asia (NE.USSR), M.Dev.(Givet.), Eu.(U.K.-Belg.-Ger.)-N.Afr. (Moroc.)-Asia (Urals-Kuzbas-C.AsiaN.Viet Nam-Gt.Khingan Ra.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Lochkovian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
419
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
359.3
Description
Corallum nodulose or with thick branches, corallites prismatic, opening almost perpendicular to surface in compressed-polygonal to semilunar, rather deep calices, walls moderately thick, thickening toward periphery of corallum, septal spines absent, but squamulae numerous, commonly back-to-back in neighboring corallites, thick proximally but attenuating distally, mural pores numerous, large, tabulae very thin, sparse, some dependent from squamulae.