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Cystodendropora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Micheliniidae
Subfamily:
Micheliniinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Cystodendropora LIN, 1962b, p. 502
Type Species:
Michelinia sinitzini Sokolov, 1955, p. 354, nom. subst. pro Michelinia cylindrica Ilina, 1939, p. 85, non ROMINGER, 1876, p. 74, OD; +Muzey Moskovskiy geologorazvedochnyy institut
Images
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Fig. 376,1a-c. *C. sinitzini (Sokolov), Kazakh., R. Kipchak, a, ext. view, X0.5, b,c, long., transv. secs., X0.8 (Ilina, 1939)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Kazakh.-?China)-?Australia(Queensl.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Carb.(Visean)
Beginning International Stage:
Visean
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
346.73
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Carb.(Visean)
Ending International Stage:
Visean
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
330.34
Description
Corallum large, dichotomously branched, branches cylindrical, oriented at right angles to surface of colony, corallites diverging slightly from axis in axial zone of branch, turning sharply perpendicular to surface in peripheral zone, corallites prismatic, thin-walled in axial zone, somewhat thickened in peripheral zone, mural pores small, tabulae complete in axial zone, incomplete with a peripheral series of tabellae in peripheral zone, so that axial parts of calices are sunken. [The Chinese specimens have greatly thickened walls in peripheral zone of branches.]
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Micheliniidae
Subfamily:
Micheliniinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Cystodendropora LIN, 1962b, p. 502
Type Species:
Michelinia sinitzini Sokolov, 1955, p. 354, nom. subst. pro Michelinia cylindrica Ilina, 1939, p. 85, non ROMINGER, 1876, p. 74, OD; +Muzey Moskovskiy geologorazvedochnyy institut
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 376,1a-c. *C. sinitzini (Sokolov), Kazakh., R. Kipchak, a, ext. view, X0.5, b,c, long., transv. secs., X0.8 (Ilina, 1939)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Kazakh.-?China)-?Australia(Queensl.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Carb.(Visean)
Beginning International Stage:
Visean
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
346.73
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Carb.(Visean)
Ending International Stage:
Visean
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
330.34
Description
Corallum large, dichotomously branched, branches cylindrical, oriented at right angles to surface of colony, corallites diverging slightly from axis in axial zone of branch, turning sharply perpendicular to surface in peripheral zone, corallites prismatic, thin-walled in axial zone, somewhat thickened in peripheral zone, mural pores small, tabulae complete in axial zone, incomplete with a peripheral series of tabellae in peripheral zone, so that axial parts of calices are sunken. [The Chinese specimens have greatly thickened walls in peripheral zone of branches.]