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Gissarophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Streptelasmatina
    Family:  
Paliphyllidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Gissarophyllum LAVRUSEVICH, 1964, p. 23
    Type Species:  
G. paligerum, OD, †8806, UpG, Dushanbe


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Fossil Image
Fig. 98,1a-c. *G. paligerum, holotype, mouth of Arba-shir gully, Zeravshan-Gissar Ra., a, b, transv. secs., X1, c, long. sec., X1 (Lavrusevich, 1964).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Asia(Tadzhik.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Sil.(lowLlandov.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Rhuddanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
443.07
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Sil.(lowLlandov.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Rhuddanian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
440.49


Description

Solitary, large, septa long, major septa extending unequally almost to axis, and may have lobed axial edges, minor septa contraclined or contratingent, in early stages septa thickened especially in tabularium, thickening retained longest in tabularium during ontogeny, dissepimentarium wide, normal, tabulae domed, incomplete




References



Museum or Author Information

Lavrusevich, 1964