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Euryphyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Stereolasmatina
    Family:  
Hapsiphyllidae
    Subfamily:  
Hapsiphyllinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Euryphyllum HILL, 1938, p. 25
    Type Species:  
E. reidi; OD; +F3243, UQ, Brisbane


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Fig. 207,3a,b. *E. reidi, holotype, Queensl., Cabbage Cr., Springsure distr., a, b, transv., long. secs., X2 (Hill, 1938)


Synonyms

Euryphyllum


Geographic Distribution

Australia(Queensl.-New S. Wales-W. Australia)-N. Z.-Asia (Timor)-Eu. (W.Urals)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Solitary, commonly small, typically with oblique calical floor, major septa extending to axis and pinnately grouped about long, closed fossula bisected by long cardinal septum on concave side of corallum, alar fossulae present, septa dilated, in early stages laterally contiguous throughout, but with growth dilatation decreases in a widening zone midway between periphery and axis, leaving wide peripheral stereozone, and an axial structure formed by the conjoined axial edges of septa, minor septa very short, tabulae widely separated, complete or incomplete, no dissepiments




References

Hill, Dorothy, , \& Butler, A. J., , \& Edwards, A. B., , \& Jell, J. S., , \& Jones, O. A., , \& Jull, R. K., , Playford, G., \& Woods, J. T., , \& Smyth, L. B., 1938, On the identity of Monilopora Nicholson and Etheridge, 1879, with Cladochonus McCoy, 1847: R. Irish Acad., Proc., v. 45, sec. B, no. 6, p. 125-138, pl. 22, 23.


Museum or Author Information

Hill, 1938