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Cladopora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Pachyporicae
Family:
Pachyporidea
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Cladopora HALL, 1851, p. 400
Type Species:
C. seriata, SD Miller, 1889-1897, p. 178, †1679:1, AMNH, New York, lectotype by OLIVER, 1963, explanation to pl. 5, fig. 1-4
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Fig. 387,1a-c. *C. seriata, lectotype, Sil., Lockport dol., N.Y., Lockport, a, ext. view, X2, b, c, transv., long. secs., X6 (Oliver, 1963)
Synonyms
Vetofistula, ?Hillaepora, Taxopora, ?Sinocladopora
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
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:
Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
359.3
Description
Corallum ramose with slender, cylindrical branches, corallites initially parallel to axis but gradually diverging to intersect surface obliquely in lozenge-shaped calices, walls thin at axis, thickening gradually toward periphery of branch, mural pores rare, tabulae and septal ridges rare to absent. [see OLIVER, 1963, p. G6].
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Pachyporicae
Family:
Pachyporidea
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Cladopora HALL, 1851, p. 400
Type Species:
C. seriata, SD Miller, 1889-1897, p. 178, †1679:1, AMNH, New York, lectotype by OLIVER, 1963, explanation to pl. 5, fig. 1-4
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 387,1a-c. *C. seriata, lectotype, Sil., Lockport dol., N.Y., Lockport, a, ext. view, X2, b, c, transv., long. secs., X6 (Oliver, 1963)
Synonyms
Vetofistula, ?Hillaepora, Taxopora, ?Sinocladopora
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
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:
Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
359.3
Description
Corallum ramose with slender, cylindrical branches, corallites initially parallel to axis but gradually diverging to intersect surface obliquely in lozenge-shaped calices, walls thin at axis, thickening gradually toward periphery of branch, mural pores rare, tabulae and septal ridges rare to absent. [see OLIVER, 1963, p. G6].