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Chavsakia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Ketophyllina
    Family:  
Ketophyllidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Chavsakia LAVRUSEVICH, 1959, p. 35
    Type Species:  
C. chavsakiensis, OD, † 3427 / 67, Lavrusevich Coll., IG, Dushanbe


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Fig. 136,2a-c. *C. chavsakiensis, Pholidophyllum beds, Zeravshan-Gissar Ra., Khavsak Gully, a,b, transv., long. secs., X1, c, fragment showing epithecal scales and radial ridging of dissepiments, X1 (Lavrusevich, 1959).


Synonyms

Nataliella


Geographic Distribution

Asia(Tadzhik.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Dev.(Gedinn.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Lochkovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
419
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Dev.(Gedinn.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Lochkovian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
412.4


Description

Solitary, cylindrical or subcylindrical, with epithecal scales, septa represented by radial ridges on dissepiments, dissepiments in single series of very large plates, subhorizontal except inner parts declining steeply to form boundary with tabularium, tabulae subhorizontal or shallowly concave. [Possibly cystiphyllinan.]




References

Lavrusevich, A. I., 1959, Nozyy rod Chausakia i~ ludlovskikh otlozheniy Zeravshano-Gissarskoy gornoy oblasti: Akad. Nauk Tadzh. SSR, Otd. Estestv. Nauk, Izv., v. 1 REFERENCES, , 1959, p. 35-41, text-fig. 1, 2, pl. 1-3. [New genus Chavsakia from the Ludlovian of the Zeravshan-Gissar mountain region.] 1964, Tri novykh roda korallou (Rugosa) iz llandoveriyskikh otlozheniy Zeravshano-Gissarskoy gornoy oblasti: Paleontol. Tadzh., 1964, p. 21-27, pl. 5-8. [Three new genera of corals (Rugosa) from the Llandovery deposits of the Zeravshan-Gissar mountain region.] 1965, Predstavitel maloizvestnogo roda Ceriaster (Rugosa) iz tsentralnogo Tadzhikistana: in B. S.


Museum or Author Information

Lavrusevich, 1959