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Darwasophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Lonsdaleiina
    Family:  
Geyerophyllidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Darwasophyllum PYZHYANOV, 1964, p. 170
    Type Species:  
D. irregulare, OD; sample 19-2-5, coll. 705, UG, Dushanbe


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Fossil Image
Fig. 268,2a-c. *D. irregulare, Tadzhik, SW. Darvaz; a,b, holotype, transv., long. secs., X2.4; c, paratype, transv. sec., X2.4 (Pyzhyanov, 1964).


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Geographic Distribution

Asia(Japan); V. Carb.( Bashl(ir.-Moscov.), Asia(Tadzhik)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Carb.(Namur.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Serpukhovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
330.34
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Carb.(Namur.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
48.4
    Ending Date:  
319.4


Description

Fasciculate, corallites with peripheral stereozone disrupted in mature stages by lonsdaleoid dissepiments, and with one long major septum ?(cardinal) connected with axial structure consisting of thickened medial plate, thickened irregular septal lamellae, and axial tabellae also somewhat thickened; other major septa unequal, commonly somewhat withdrawn from axial structure; tabulae declined toward axial structure, complete or incomplete.




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