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Lichenaria
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Chaetetida
Family:
Lichenariidae?
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Lichenaria Winchell & SCHUCHERT, 1895, p. 83
Type Species:
L. typa, OD; +type material 42947, 42949, USNM, Washington
Images
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Fig. 337,2a-d. *L. typa, syntypes, Decorah F.; a,c, oblique sees.; b,d, transv. sees. showing mural pores, X4 (Hill, n; USNM no. 42949). [Research on type material and topotypes required; the "cotypes" figured herein are probably Paleofavosites TWENHOFEL, 1914, p. 24.]
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
USA(Minn.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Ord.(Blackriver)
Beginning International Stage:
Dapingian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
471.26
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Ord.(Blackriver)
Ending International Stage:
Darriwilian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
458.18
Description
Corallum small, hemispherical, cerioid, attached, in some, fasciculate in places, with slender prismatic corallites having thin, radially tufted walls (mural pore at angles, fide DUNCAN in FLOWER, 1961, p. 39, footnote); tabulae sparse, horizontal and complete; aseptate; offsets arise either interstitially or along periphery from underneath the parent corallite.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Chaetetida
Family:
Lichenariidae?
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Lichenaria Winchell & SCHUCHERT, 1895, p. 83
Type Species:
L. typa, OD; +type material 42947, 42949, USNM, Washington
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 337,2a-d. *L. typa, syntypes, Decorah F.; a,c, oblique sees.; b,d, transv. sees. showing mural pores, X4 (Hill, n; USNM no. 42949). [Research on type material and topotypes required; the "cotypes" figured herein are probably Paleofavosites TWENHOFEL, 1914, p. 24.]
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
USA(Minn.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Ord.(Blackriver)
Beginning International Stage:
Dapingian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
471.26
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Ord.(Blackriver)
Ending International Stage:
Darriwilian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
458.18
Description
Corallum small, hemispherical, cerioid, attached, in some, fasciculate in places, with slender prismatic corallites having thin, radially tufted walls (mural pore at angles, fide DUNCAN in FLOWER, 1961, p. 39, footnote); tabulae sparse, horizontal and complete; aseptate; offsets arise either interstitially or along periphery from underneath the parent corallite.