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Lonsdaleiastraea

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Lonsdaleiina
    Family:  
Waagenophyllidae
    Subfamily:  
Wentzelellinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Lonsdaleiastraea GERTH, 1921, p. 77
    Type Species:  
L. vinassai; M; +11792, TH, Delft


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Fig. 275,4. *L. vinassai, holotype, Poetain, Timor; transv. sec., X2.1 (Gerth, 1921).


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Geographic Distribution

Asia (Timor-Japan-? Karakorum)


Age Range

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


Description

Thamnasterioid or partly aphroid, with tertiary septa, axial column of median plate, septal lamellae, and axial tabellae variously thickened, tabularium with clinotabulae peripherally and horizontal tabulae next to the column, width of both varying with length of major and minor septa.




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