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Egosiella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Favositida
    Suborder:  
Favositina
    Superfamily:  
Pachyporicae
    Family:  
Pachyporidea
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Egosiella Dubatolov in SOKOLOV, 1955, p. 190
    Type Species:  
E. safonoviensis, OD; +390, coll. 546, VNIGRI, Leningrad


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Fossil Image
Fig. 389, *. *E. safonoviensis, holotype, M.Dev. (Givet., Safonovo beds), Kuzbas, R. Egos, Safonovo, a, ext. view, *, long. sec. of branch, * (Sokolov, 1955).


Synonyms

Limaria


Geographic Distribution

M.Sil.-U.Sil., N.Am.(Mich.-Ky.-Tenn.-Okla.), L.Dev.-M.Dev., Asia(Kuzbas-Tarbagatau Ra.)-?Eu.(Ger.-Belg.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Sil.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Sheinwoodian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
432.93
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Sil.
    Ending International Stage:  
Pridoli
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
419


Description

Corallum of procumbent, anastomosing, slender, cylindrical branches, corallites diverge fanwise from asymmetrical axis of branch and open in small, compressed, pocketlike calices commonly arranged in alternating longitudinal rows, corallites irregularly prismatic and thin-walled in axial region, but calices crescentic or oval due to thickening of walls in peripheral regions, septal spinules weakly developed, mural pores few, tabulae transverse. [see MIRONOVA, 1968, p. 50].




References



Museum or Author Information

Sokolov, 1955