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Lophocarinophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Plerophyllina
    Family:  
Lophophyllidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Lophocarinophyllum GRABAU, 1922, p. 46
    Type Species:  
Lophophyllum (Lophocarinophyllum) acanthiseptatum, OD; +147, IGP, Nanking, fide catalog, but cited as +146 by IVANOVSKIY, 1976, p. 100, following FOMICHEV, 1953b, p. 38 (work not seen by HILL


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Fig. 220,2a-e. *L. acanthiseptatum, syntypes, U.Carb., Shantung, Tung Chuang, I-Hsien, a-d, oblique transv., e, long. secs., X2.5 (Grabau, 1922)


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Geographic Distribution

Asia (Shantung, Shensi-Camb.), Eu. (Italy-Aus.-Donbas)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Carb.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
323.4
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Solitary, small, curved, with prominent columella formed by distal prolongation of expanded axial end of long counter septum, cardinal septum short in late stages, other major septa subequal, long, septa with subhorizontal flanges, minor septa very short, tabulae ?conical, thin, no dissepiments, in early stages major septa confluent axially in axial structure




References



Museum or Author Information

Grabau, 1922