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Eridophyllum
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Cyathophyllina
Family:
Eridophyllidae
Subfamily:
Eridophyllinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Eridophyllum Milne-Edwards & HAIME, 1850, p. lxxi
Type Species:
E. seriale, OD, tin de Verneuil Coll., EM, Paris, lectotype by SMITH, 1933, p. 515
Images
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Fig. 187,2a,b. *E. seriale, Columbus Ls., Ohio, Sandusky, a, b, transv., long. secs., X2 (Stewart, 1938).
Synonyms
Craspedophyllum, Crepidophyllum, Schistotoecholasma
Geographic Distribution
N. Am. (Ohio-Ind.-Mich.-Ont.)-N. Afr. (Moroc.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M. Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Eifelian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
394.3
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M. Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Givetian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
378.9
Description
Phaceloid, with connecting processes, septa but slightly dilated, commonly carinate with yardarm carinae, marginarium a wide dissepimentarium with small, mostly globose, equal plates in several series, a thin aulos, breached at the cardinal fossula in some, separating an axial series of horizontal tabellae from a periaxial series of tabellae declined outward. [see OLIVER, 1976a, p. 96].
References
Haime, Jules, 1850, Polypiers: in P. E. P. Verneuil, Note sur les fossiles dévoniens du district de Sabero (Léon): Soc. Géol. France, Bull., sér. 2, v. 7, p. 161-162.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Cyathophyllina
Family:
Eridophyllidae
Subfamily:
Eridophyllinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Eridophyllum Milne-Edwards & HAIME, 1850, p. lxxi
Type Species:
E. seriale, OD, tin de Verneuil Coll., EM, Paris, lectotype by SMITH, 1933, p. 515
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 187,2a,b. *E. seriale, Columbus Ls., Ohio, Sandusky, a, b, transv., long. secs., X2 (Stewart, 1938).
Synonyms
Craspedophyllum, Crepidophyllum, Schistotoecholasma
Geographic Distribution
N. Am. (Ohio-Ind.-Mich.-Ont.)-N. Afr. (Moroc.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M. Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Eifelian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
394.3
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M. Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Givetian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
378.9
Description
Phaceloid, with connecting processes, septa but slightly dilated, commonly carinate with yardarm carinae, marginarium a wide dissepimentarium with small, mostly globose, equal plates in several series, a thin aulos, breached at the cardinal fossula in some, separating an axial series of horizontal tabellae from a periaxial series of tabellae declined outward. [see OLIVER, 1976a, p. 96].
References
Haime, Jules, 1850, Polypiers: in P. E. P. Verneuil, Note sur les fossiles dévoniens du district de Sabero (Léon): Soc. Géol. France, Bull., sér. 2, v. 7, p. 161-162.