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Cyathophylloides

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Stauriina
    Family:  
Stauriidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Cyathophylloides DYBOWSKI, 1873c, p. 379
    Type Species:  
C. kassariensis, SD SHERZER, 1891, p. 278, syntype, Co1335, coll. 11, EGM, Tallinn


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Fig. 69,2a,b. *C. kassariensis, L.Sil., Est., Tamsalu, a,b, transv., long. secs., X2.7 (Hill, n; UQF26866).


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Geographic Distribution

Asia(Kazakh.), L.Sil. (G2-3), Eu.(Est.)-?N.Am.(Nev.)


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

Cerioid, increase peripheral, nonparricidal, corallites with long major septa running together in groups axially, and with long minor septa, septa thin, peripheral stereozone narrow, tabulae domed, in some interseptal loculi with strongly upturned margins ?(=biform tabularium), and complete or incomplete.




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