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Empodesma
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Plerophyllina
Family:
Polycoeliidae
Subfamily:
Polycoeliinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Empodesma Moore & JEFFORDS, 1945, p. 89
Type Species:
E. imulum, OD, †140334, USNM, Washington
Images
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Fig. 210,Ia-c. *E. imulum, holotype, Bend., Marble Falls Ls., N. central Texas, a, long., b, c, transv. secs., all X2 (Moore& Jeffords, 1945).
Synonyms
Sochkineophyllum
Geographic Distribution
N.Am. (Texas-Okla.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Penn.
Beginning International Stage:
Bashkirian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
323.4
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Penn.
Ending International Stage:
Bashkirian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
315.15
Description
Solitary, conical, slightly curved, calice very oblique, in young stage cardinal and counter septa conjoined and alar septa long, other septa angled to cardinal and alar septa, major septa thick with smooth and somewhat swollen axial edges, not in contact, dilatation being great just above tabula, in late stages cardinal septum withdrawn from axis, leaving fossula, variable in position but commonly on convex side of corallum, and septa thin, septal insertion accelerated in counter quadrants, tabulae sagging, complete or incomplete, minor septa rudimentary, no dissepiments.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Plerophyllina
Family:
Polycoeliidae
Subfamily:
Polycoeliinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Empodesma Moore & JEFFORDS, 1945, p. 89
Type Species:
E. imulum, OD, †140334, USNM, Washington
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 210,Ia-c. *E. imulum, holotype, Bend., Marble Falls Ls., N. central Texas, a, long., b, c, transv. secs., all X2 (Moore& Jeffords, 1945).
Synonyms
Sochkineophyllum
Geographic Distribution
N.Am. (Texas-Okla.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Penn.
Beginning International Stage:
Bashkirian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
323.4
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Penn.
Ending International Stage:
Bashkirian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
315.15
Description
Solitary, conical, slightly curved, calice very oblique, in young stage cardinal and counter septa conjoined and alar septa long, other septa angled to cardinal and alar septa, major septa thick with smooth and somewhat swollen axial edges, not in contact, dilatation being great just above tabula, in late stages cardinal septum withdrawn from axis, leaving fossula, variable in position but commonly on convex side of corallum, and septa thin, septal insertion accelerated in counter quadrants, tabulae sagging, complete or incomplete, minor septa rudimentary, no dissepiments.