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Heterocoenites
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Pachyporicae
Family:
Pachyporidea
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Heterocoenites GERTH, 1921, p. 109
Type Species:
H. variabilis, SD Lang, Smith, & THOMAS, 1940, p. 68, figured syntypes 39, Wanner Coll., IP, Bonn
Images
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Fig. 389,la-c. ·H. variabi/is, syntype, Basleo., Timor; a, long. sec., X2.3; b,c, ext. views, X2.7, X1.3 (Gerth, 1921).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Timor)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Perm.
Beginning International Stage:
Wuchiapingian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
259.55
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Perm.
Ending International Stage:
Changhsingian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
251.9
Description
Corallum branching, corallites directed longitudinally in axes of branches, diverging to open at surface with polygonal calices in proximal parts, but obliquely and with alveolitoid calices in distal parts; skeletal thickening great, lumina filled in axial regions of branch; septa represented by ridges or rows of small spines, up to eight; one septum larger than others; mural pores sparse, somewhat irregular; tabulae rare.
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Pachyporicae
Family:
Pachyporidea
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Heterocoenites GERTH, 1921, p. 109
Type Species:
H. variabilis, SD Lang, Smith, & THOMAS, 1940, p. 68, figured syntypes 39, Wanner Coll., IP, Bonn
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 389,la-c. ·H. variabi/is, syntype, Basleo., Timor; a, long. sec., X2.3; b,c, ext. views, X2.7, X1.3 (Gerth, 1921).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Timor)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Perm.
Beginning International Stage:
Wuchiapingian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
259.55
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Perm.
Ending International Stage:
Changhsingian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
251.9
Description
Corallum branching, corallites directed longitudinally in axes of branches, diverging to open at surface with polygonal calices in proximal parts, but obliquely and with alveolitoid calices in distal parts; skeletal thickening great, lumina filled in axial regions of branch; septa represented by ridges or rows of small spines, up to eight; one septum larger than others; mural pores sparse, somewhat irregular; tabulae rare.