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Dictyofavosites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Favositida
    Suborder:  
Favositina
    Superfamily:  
Favositicae
    Family:  
Favositidae
    Subfamily:  
Favositinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Dictyofavosites CHERNYSHEV, 1951, p. 36
    Type Species:  
Favosites (D.) salairicus, OD, +37, coll. 5725, TsGM, Leningrad


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Fossil Image
Fig. 357,1a,b. *D. salairictls, holotype, L.Dev., Salair, R. Pavlova above mouth of Khvoshchevki; a,b, transv., long. sees., X3.3 (Chernyshev, 1951).


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Geographic Distribution

Asia(Salair-Kazakh.-NE.USSR)-Australia(Vict.-New S.Wales). [see also MIRONOVA, 1974a, p. 57]


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Dev.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Lochkovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
419
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Emsian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
394.3


Description

Cerioid, tabulae of all corallites arranged at same levels and horizontal or slightly curved, corallites thin-walled, slender, mural pores in one or rarely two longitudinal mid-face rows, septal spines rare, in some species also small, sparse, eaveslike squamulae form upper rims of pores




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