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Chaetetipora

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Chaetetida
    Family:  
Chaetetidae
    Subfamily:  
Chaetetiporinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Chaetetipora STRUVE, 1898, p. 93
    Type Species:  
C. confluens; SD SOKOLOV, 1950b, p. 62; tin ?uncatalogued old coIl. of STRUVE in LGI, Leningrad fide SOKOLOV, 1950b, p. 62


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Fossil Image
Fig. 333,3a,b. C. loxonema SOKOLOV, holotype, L.Carb.(up. Visean), Ukrainian SSR, Voroshilovgrad distr., Velikotskoe; a,b, long., transv. sees., X4 (Sokolov, 1950b).


Synonyms

Fistulimurina


Geographic Distribution

N. Am.(ElIesmere I.-Alaska); M.Dev., USSR (Urals-Vorkuta-C.Asia); Carb., Eu.(G.Brit.-Ger.-Urals-Moscow Basin-Donbas)-Asia(C.Asia-Viet Nam-China


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Sandbian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
458.18
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Ord.
    Ending International Stage:  
Hirnantian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
443.07


Description

Differs from Chaetetes by the irregular curving meandroid cross section of the corallites; increase bipartite, for the most part incomplete; tabulae in meandroid corallites may be incomplete and pass into tabellae.




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