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Gangamophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Lonsdaleiina
    Family:  
Axophyllidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Gangamophyllum GORSKIY, 1938, p. 101
    Type Species:  
G. boreale; OD; +not traced, fide DOBROLYUBOVA, 1952a, p. 53


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Fig. 261,1a,b. *G. boreale; a, holotype, up. Visean or Namur., N. Zemlya, S. Coast Bogaty I., transv. sec., X 1.7 (Gorskiy, 1938); b, another specimen, R. aka, Moscow Basin, long. sec., X1.7 (Dobrolyubova, 1952a). --Fig. 261,1c,d. G. "retiforme (LIN & FAN); c, holotype, transv. sec., X1.7; d, another specimen, long. sec., X 1.7 (Yü etaZ., 1963).


Synonyms

Chienchangia


Geographic Distribution

Eu. (N.Zemlya-Urals-Yugo. Donbas-Moscow Basin)-Asia(Kazakh.-N.Pamir-China-Japan).


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.(Visean)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
346.73
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.(Visean)
    Ending International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
330.34


Description

Large, solitary, cylindrical, in late stages with lonsdaleoid dissepimentarium, with wide axial column of irregularly radial septal lamellae and domed tabellae and without median lamella or columella, axial ends of major septa not attaining column, pericolumnar tabulae concave to declined or inclined, no marked fossula [DOBROLYUBOVA, 1952a, p. 53].




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