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Lophophyllum
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Plerophyllina
Family:
Lophophyllidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Lophophyllum Milne-Edwards & HAIME, 1850, p. lxvi
Type Species:
*L. konincki, OD, tno. 1 of 6 syntypes, Z37a, MN, Paris, lectotype by Hill, herein
Images
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Fig. 219,2a-c. *L. konincki, lectotype, Tournai, a, calical view, X3, b, c, views of right and left longitudinal fractured surfaces, showing tabula, X3 (Lecompte, 1955)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Belg.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Carb.(Tournais.)
Beginning International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
359.3
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Carb.(Tournais.)
Ending International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
346.73
Description
Solitary, small, with oblique calice, cardinal side convex, with small, laterally compressed, distally projecting columella proximally continuous with both cardinal and counter septa, distally separated from cardinal septum by wide notch, with closed fossula in front of and embracing columella and widening adaxially, major septa (except those that border fossula) reaching columella in proximal parts and arranged with marked bilateral symmetry, in cardinal quadrants they are curved slightly toward axis and fuse variably to delimit fossula, in counter quadrants they are commonly isolated, radial, and shorter, minor septa but little developed, arched tabulae present, but no dissepiments [see LECOMPTE, 1955, p. 410].
References
Haime, Jules, 1850, Polypiers: in P. E. P. Verneuil, Note sur les fossiles dévoniens du district de Sabero (Léon): Soc. Géol. France, Bull., sér. 2, v. 7, p. 161-162.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Plerophyllina
Family:
Lophophyllidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Lophophyllum Milne-Edwards & HAIME, 1850, p. lxvi
Type Species:
*L. konincki, OD, tno. 1 of 6 syntypes, Z37a, MN, Paris, lectotype by Hill, herein
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 219,2a-c. *L. konincki, lectotype, Tournai, a, calical view, X3, b, c, views of right and left longitudinal fractured surfaces, showing tabula, X3 (Lecompte, 1955)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Belg.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Carb.(Tournais.)
Beginning International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
359.3
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Carb.(Tournais.)
Ending International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
346.73
Description
Solitary, small, with oblique calice, cardinal side convex, with small, laterally compressed, distally projecting columella proximally continuous with both cardinal and counter septa, distally separated from cardinal septum by wide notch, with closed fossula in front of and embracing columella and widening adaxially, major septa (except those that border fossula) reaching columella in proximal parts and arranged with marked bilateral symmetry, in cardinal quadrants they are curved slightly toward axis and fuse variably to delimit fossula, in counter quadrants they are commonly isolated, radial, and shorter, minor septa but little developed, arched tabulae present, but no dissepiments [see LECOMPTE, 1955, p. 410].
References
Haime, Jules, 1850, Polypiers: in P. E. P. Verneuil, Note sur les fossiles dévoniens du district de Sabero (Léon): Soc. Géol. France, Bull., sér. 2, v. 7, p. 161-162.