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Calostylis

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Calostylina
    Superfamily:  
Calostylicae
    Family:  
Calostylidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Calostylis LINDSTRÖM, 1868, p. 421
    Type Species:  
C. cribraria, M, †Cn15679, RM, Stockholm, lectotype by Weyer, 1973a, p. 29, ?=Clisiophyllum denticulatum Kjerulf, 1865, p. 25, Sil., Gotl., thot traced, see Smith, 1930b, p. 267, WEYER, 1973a, p. 29


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Fig. 107,2a-d. * C. cribraria, Sil., Gotl., a, lectotype, calical view, X15.0; b, another specimen, side view, X1.0, c,d, third specimen, transv., long. secs., X2.8, X1.8 (Smith, 1930b).


Synonyms

Hemiphyllum, Hemiphyllum siluriensis


Geographic Distribution

Asia(Szechwan-Kweichow), U. Ord., Eu.(Est.), Sil., Eu. (U.K.-Gotl.-Nor.-Est.-Urals)-Asia (Kazakh.-Sayan-Himalaya-Sib. Platf.-Kweichow-Szechwan)-Australia(New S.Wales)-N. Am. (Ky.-Ohio), U.Sil. or L.Dev.(Aynasu. ), Asia (Kazakh.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Up.M.Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Dapingian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
471.26
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Up.M.Ord.
    Ending International Stage:  
Darriwilian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
458.18


Description

Solitary, not epithecate in distal region, calice being steeply everted near peripheral margin, major and minor septa slightly perforate, connected by irregular synapticulae, trabeculae ?monacanthine, connected radially in single series by synapticular extensions, axial ends of large major septa lobed and reticulate, forming spongy axial structure that may form calical boss, tabulae domed, filmy, complete and widely separated, continuous in marginarium with filmy plates parallel to distal edges of major septa.




References



Museum or Author Information

Smith, 1930