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Chaetetes
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Chaetetida
Family:
Chaetetidae
Subfamily:
Chaetetinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Chaetetes Fischer von Waldheim MS in EICHWALD, 1829, p. 197
Type Species:
C. cylindraceus; ; SO OAKLEY, 1936, p. 441; tpossibly in EICHWALD CoIl., LGU, Leningrad; LANG, SMITH, & THOMAS, 1940, p. 35, considered C. cylindraceus congeneric if not conspecific with C. radians FISCHER VON WALDHEIM, 1830 and 1837, p. 160, which was erroneously chosen as type species by MILNE-EDWARDS & HAIME, 1850, p. 1xi
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Fig. 330,3 c. *C. (C.) cylindraceus, M.Carb., environs of Moscow, ext. view, X? (Eichwald, 1829). --Fig. 330,3 a, b. C. (C.) tenuiradiatus Sokolov, Visean (Serpukhov substage), NW. part Moscow Basin, R. Prishka, a, b, transv., long. secs., X4.0 (Sokolov, 1955)
Synonyms
Chaetites, ?Dania
Geographic Distribution
N.Am. (Mich.), M.Dev., Asia(Kuzbas-Kazakh. ), M. Dev.-Carb., Eu.(USSR-G.Brit.)-Asia(C.Asia-Arc-tic-China-Japan-Indoch. ), M.Dev.-Penn., N.Am., Perm., N.Am.-Asia (Japan-Karakorum)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Rhuddanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
443.07
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Ending International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
419
Description
Corallum massive, subglobular or hemispherical, commonly showing narrow bands of slower growth along which it readily splits into concentric sheets; corallites radially disposed, regular, long, prismatic; common walls without con-
spicuous median suture line and composed of longitudinal trabeculae; increase frequent, axial, bipartite and complete; tabulae horizontal; septal spines
absent; mural pores absent.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Chaetetida
Family:
Chaetetidae
Subfamily:
Chaetetinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Chaetetes Fischer von Waldheim MS in EICHWALD, 1829, p. 197
Type Species:
C. cylindraceus; ; SO OAKLEY, 1936, p. 441; tpossibly in EICHWALD CoIl., LGU, Leningrad; LANG, SMITH, & THOMAS, 1940, p. 35, considered C. cylindraceus congeneric if not conspecific with C. radians FISCHER VON WALDHEIM, 1830 and 1837, p. 160, which was erroneously chosen as type species by MILNE-EDWARDS & HAIME, 1850, p. 1xi
Images
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Fig. 330,3 c. *C. (C.) cylindraceus, M.Carb., environs of Moscow, ext. view, X? (Eichwald, 1829). --Fig. 330,3 a, b. C. (C.) tenuiradiatus Sokolov, Visean (Serpukhov substage), NW. part Moscow Basin, R. Prishka, a, b, transv., long. secs., X4.0 (Sokolov, 1955)
Synonyms
Chaetites, ?Dania
Geographic Distribution
N.Am. (Mich.), M.Dev., Asia(Kuzbas-Kazakh. ), M. Dev.-Carb., Eu.(USSR-G.Brit.)-Asia(C.Asia-Arc-tic-China-Japan-Indoch. ), M.Dev.-Penn., N.Am., Perm., N.Am.-Asia (Japan-Karakorum)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Rhuddanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
443.07
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Ending International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
419
Description
Corallum massive, subglobular or hemispherical, commonly showing narrow bands of slower growth along which it readily splits into concentric sheets; corallites radially disposed, regular, long, prismatic; common walls without con-
spicuous median suture line and composed of longitudinal trabeculae; increase frequent, axial, bipartite and complete; tabulae horizontal; septal spines
absent; mural pores absent.