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Hermatostroma

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Hydrozoa
    Order:  
Stromatoporoidea
    Family:  
Syringostromatidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Hermatostroma NICHOLSON, 1886
    Type Species:  
H. schlüteri


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Fig. 107,4. *H. schlüteri. M.Dev., Ger., tang. sec., X20 (49), also Fig. 96. -- Fig. 99. H. perseptatum Lecompte, U.Dev.(L.Frasn.), Belg., long. sec., X3 (49*)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Sil.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Rhuddanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
443.07
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Famennian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
359.3


Description

Skeletal elements thick, subequal and mutually perpendicular, interlamellar chambers well delimited, typically rounded, and commonly divided by partitions, vertical tabulated chambers more or less numerous. Astrorhizae generally prominent. Skeletal elements with marginal cellular or canaliculo-cellular structure




References

Nicholson, H. A., 1886-92, A monograph of the British stromatoporoids: Palaeontograph. Soc. Mon. (London), $234 \mathrm{p} ., 29 \mathrm{pl}$.


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