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Desmidopora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Chaetetida
Family:
Desmidoporidae?
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Desmidopora NICHOLSON, 1886, p. 289
Type Species:
D. alveolaris, M, syntypes, C10152, AU, Aberdeen, fide BENTON, 1979
Images
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Fig. 335,3a,b. *D. alveolaris, syntype, Eng., Dudley, a, b, long., transv. secs., X4 (Hill, n; Univ. Aberdeen, coll. no. C10152b).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Eng.Ukraine), M.Dev(Eifel.), Asia(Tien Shan)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Sil.(Wenlock.)
Beginning International Stage:
Sheinwoodian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
432.93
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Sil.(Wenlock.)
Ending International Stage:
Homerian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
426.74
Description
Corallum nodular to spreading, corallites slender, some are rounded-polygonal in transverse section, others in places lack one or more side walls so that they form meandroid series of two or more, walls may appear nodular in transverse section, no median suture line visible, walls with mural pores at angle between faces of corallites, septal elements absent, tabulae complete and horizontal where walls are complete, incomplete in the serially confluent corallites [see FRITZ, 1939, p. 512; TESAKOV, 1960, p. 48; PREOBRAZHENSKIY, 1968, p. 90].
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Chaetetida
Family:
Desmidoporidae?
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Desmidopora NICHOLSON, 1886, p. 289
Type Species:
D. alveolaris, M, syntypes, C10152, AU, Aberdeen, fide BENTON, 1979
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 335,3a,b. *D. alveolaris, syntype, Eng., Dudley, a, b, long., transv. secs., X4 (Hill, n; Univ. Aberdeen, coll. no. C10152b).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Eng.Ukraine), M.Dev(Eifel.), Asia(Tien Shan)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Sil.(Wenlock.)
Beginning International Stage:
Sheinwoodian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
432.93
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Sil.(Wenlock.)
Ending International Stage:
Homerian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
426.74
Description
Corallum nodular to spreading, corallites slender, some are rounded-polygonal in transverse section, others in places lack one or more side walls so that they form meandroid series of two or more, walls may appear nodular in transverse section, no median suture line visible, walls with mural pores at angle between faces of corallites, septal elements absent, tabulae complete and horizontal where walls are complete, incomplete in the serially confluent corallites [see FRITZ, 1939, p. 512; TESAKOV, 1960, p. 48; PREOBRAZHENSKIY, 1968, p. 90].