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Fomichevella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Caniniina
    Family:  
Cyathopsidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Fomichevella FEDOROWSKI, 1975, p. 53
    Type Species:  
Campophyllum hoeli Holtedahl, 1913, p. 24, OD; +K67-8, PM, Oslo


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Fossil Image
Fig. 224,1a-d. * F. hoeli (Holtedahl), holotype, U.Carb., base of Fusulina Ls., Vestspits., W. of Green Harbour; a,b, transv., long. sees., X2 (Holtedahl, 1913); c,d, SCHINDEWOLF'S long. and transv. sees., approx. X2 (Heritsch, 1939). --Fig. 224,le,f. F. stuckenbergi (FOMICHEV), holotype; transv., long. sees., X2 (Fomichev, 1953a).


Synonyms

Stuckenbergia


Geographic Distribution

Eu. (Donbas-Spits.-Bear I.), ?L. Perm., Eu.(Urals)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tournaisian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
359.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.
    Ending International Stage:  
Serpukhovian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
323.4


Description

Phaceloid, major septa radial, thin but not disrupted in dissepimentarium, in late stages withdrawn subequally from axis, tabular floors rising from dissepimentarium to ring of axial septal ends of major septa and flat or saucered in axial space within ring, may be slightly thickened in tabularium in early stages, cardinal septum somewhat shorter, in shallow fossula, length of counter septum variable, may be shorter or longer, minor septa may extend from periphery to tabularium or be more or less withdrawn toward periphery, leaving inosculating dissepiments




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