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Iranophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Lonsdaleiina
    Family:  
Waagenophyllidae
    Subfamily:  
Waagenophyllinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Iranophyllum DOUGLAS, 1936, p. 17
    Type Species:  
I. splendens, OD; 15915, GSI, Calcutta (fide LA TOUCHE, SASTRY, & SINHA, 1969, p. 61), slide SPR829, coll. Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd., not traced


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Fig. 277, 1a,b. *I. (I.) splendens, holotype, Iran, Darreh Duzdun, a, b, transv., long. secs., X2.3 (Douglas, 1936)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Asia(Iran-Pak.-Viet Nam-Laos-S.China-Japan)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.(Pseudofusulina)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.(?Yabeina Z.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Solitary, with third or higher orders of septa, axial column of median plate, septal lamellae and numerous axial tabellae declined from medial plate, major septa commonly thicker than others, may be withdrawn somewhat from column, wide dissepimentarium, plates in all interseptal loculi small, concentric, lonsdaleoid dissepiments in some, tabulae between axial ends of minor and major septa clinotabulae, those between axial ends of major septa and column narrow and horizontal




References

Douglas, J. A., 1936, A Permo-Carboniferous fauna from south-west Persia (Iran): Palaeontol. Indica, n.s., v. 22, Mem. 6, p. 1-59, text-fig., pl. 1-5.


Museum or Author Information

Douglas, 1936