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Gracilopora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Pachyporicae
Family:
Pachyporidea
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Gracilopora CHUDINOVA, 1964, p. 31
Type Species:
G. acuta, OD, †54, coll. 887. PIN, Moscow, =Thamnopora yavorskyi DUBATOLOV, 1959, p. 75, † ? in Dubatolov Coll., VNIGRI, Leningrad, fide Mironova, 1974a, p. 72
Images
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Fig. 391,la,b. *G. yavorskyi (DUBATOLOV), CHUDINOVA'S holotype, Eifel., Salairka horizon, left bank R. Maly Bachat, 500 to 600 m. E. of bridge over R. Salairka; a,b, tramv., long. secs., X 1.3, X 2.7 (Chudinova, 1964).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia (Kuzbas-NE. USSR-Urals).
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Lochkovian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
419
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M. Dev. (Eifel.)
Ending International Stage:
Eifelian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
385.3
Description
Corallum of moderately slender, cylindrical branches; corallites very slender, numerous, polygonal or rounded polygonal in cross section and curving slowly at first outward from axis of branch to open at surface at an acute or closer to right angle; calices with sharp lower lip and gently sloping, bluntly thickened upper lip; walls thin in axial zone, gradually thickening toward surface of branch; stereozone latently radially fibrous with faintly marked median suture between corallites; pores uniserial; small septal spines may be present; tabulae complete, horizontal, or rarely inclined [see DUBATOLOV, 1969, p. 112].
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Pachyporicae
Family:
Pachyporidea
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Gracilopora CHUDINOVA, 1964, p. 31
Type Species:
G. acuta, OD, †54, coll. 887. PIN, Moscow, =Thamnopora yavorskyi DUBATOLOV, 1959, p. 75, † ? in Dubatolov Coll., VNIGRI, Leningrad, fide Mironova, 1974a, p. 72
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 391,la,b. *G. yavorskyi (DUBATOLOV), CHUDINOVA'S holotype, Eifel., Salairka horizon, left bank R. Maly Bachat, 500 to 600 m. E. of bridge over R. Salairka; a,b, tramv., long. secs., X 1.3, X 2.7 (Chudinova, 1964).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia (Kuzbas-NE. USSR-Urals).
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Lochkovian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
419
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M. Dev. (Eifel.)
Ending International Stage:
Eifelian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
385.3
Description
Corallum of moderately slender, cylindrical branches; corallites very slender, numerous, polygonal or rounded polygonal in cross section and curving slowly at first outward from axis of branch to open at surface at an acute or closer to right angle; calices with sharp lower lip and gently sloping, bluntly thickened upper lip; walls thin in axial zone, gradually thickening toward surface of branch; stereozone latently radially fibrous with faintly marked median suture between corallites; pores uniserial; small septal spines may be present; tabulae complete, horizontal, or rarely inclined [see DUBATOLOV, 1969, p. 112].