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Cystiphyllum
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Cystiphyllida
Family:
Cystiphyllidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Cystiphyllum LONSDALE, 1839, p. 691
Type Species:
C. silllriense; SD MILNE-EDWARDS & HAIME, 1850, p. 1xxii; tGS6565 & PF4448-9, GSM, London; lectotype by LANG & SMITH, 1927, p. 476
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Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
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:
M.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Givetian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
378.9
Description
Solitary, turbinate to cylindrical; major and minor septa long, each represented by trabeculae typically developed only on upper surfaces of successive globose dissepiments and tabellae; sclerocones not strongly developed, thicker and more continuous peripherally than axially; calicular floors inversely conical, inclination of dissepiments and tabellae commonly being similar
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Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Cystiphyllida
Family:
Cystiphyllidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Cystiphyllum LONSDALE, 1839, p. 691
Type Species:
C. silllriense; SD MILNE-EDWARDS & HAIME, 1850, p. 1xxii; tGS6565 & PF4448-9, GSM, London; lectotype by LANG & SMITH, 1927, p. 476
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
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:
M.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Givetian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
378.9
Description
Solitary, turbinate to cylindrical; major and minor septa long, each represented by trabeculae typically developed only on upper surfaces of successive globose dissepiments and tabellae; sclerocones not strongly developed, thicker and more continuous peripherally than axially; calicular floors inversely conical, inclination of dissepiments and tabellae commonly being similar