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Guerichiphyllum
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Metriophyllina
Family:
Laccophyllidae
Subfamily:
Guerichiphyllinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Guerichiphyllum ROZKOWSKA, 1969, p. 71
Type Species:
Blothrophyllum skalense Gürich, 1896, p. 173, OD, † neotype, here chosen on request of Fedorowski (written commun., May 28, 1974), P128, PZI, Poznan, figured FEDOROWSKI, 1965b, pl. 5, fig. 1
Images
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Fig. 118,2a-c. *G. skalense (Gürich), M.Dev., Pol., Skaly, a, neotype, transv. sec., X2.3, b, c, other specimens, transv., long. secs., X2.3 (Fedorowski, 1965b).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Pol.)-W.Australia
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Eifelian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
394.3
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
359.3
Description
Small, solitary, ?convex side cardinal, major septa united at axis in earliest stages, then withdrawing but forming aulos by turning aside to contiguity or by thickening of neighboring axial ends, aulos fails to continue into latest stages, minor septa short or reduced to wall or surfaces of dissepiments, not contratingent, septa of cardinal quadrant, or in places of all quadrants may be thickened, cardinal septum shortens in shallow fossula, lonsdaleoid dissepiments may occur.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Metriophyllina
Family:
Laccophyllidae
Subfamily:
Guerichiphyllinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Guerichiphyllum ROZKOWSKA, 1969, p. 71
Type Species:
Blothrophyllum skalense Gürich, 1896, p. 173, OD, † neotype, here chosen on request of Fedorowski (written commun., May 28, 1974), P128, PZI, Poznan, figured FEDOROWSKI, 1965b, pl. 5, fig. 1
Images
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Fig. 118,2a-c. *G. skalense (Gürich), M.Dev., Pol., Skaly, a, neotype, transv. sec., X2.3, b, c, other specimens, transv., long. secs., X2.3 (Fedorowski, 1965b).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Pol.)-W.Australia
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Eifelian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
394.3
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
359.3
Description
Small, solitary, ?convex side cardinal, major septa united at axis in earliest stages, then withdrawing but forming aulos by turning aside to contiguity or by thickening of neighboring axial ends, aulos fails to continue into latest stages, minor septa short or reduced to wall or surfaces of dissepiments, not contratingent, septa of cardinal quadrant, or in places of all quadrants may be thickened, cardinal septum shortens in shallow fossula, lonsdaleoid dissepiments may occur.