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Lyopora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Sarcinulida
Family:
Syringophyllidae
Subfamily:
Lyoporinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Lyopora Nicholson & ETHERIDGE, 1878, p. 25
Type Species:
Palaeopora? favosa MCCOY, 1850, p. 285, M, syntypes A5526, 5527, SM, Cambridge
Images
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Fig. 342,1a,b. *L. favosa (McCov), M.Ord., Craighead Ls., Scot., Girvan, Ayrshire, a,b, long., transv. secs., X4 (Hill, n, UQF27459).
Synonyms
Liopara
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Scot.-Nor.-Est.)-Asia (Sib. Platf.)-Australia (Tasm.)-N. Am. (Ont.-N.Y.), U.Ord.(Ashgill.), Asia(Kazakh.?Shoria Mts.)-N.Am.(?Manit.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Ord.
Beginning International Stage:
Dapingian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
471.26
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Ord.
Ending International Stage:
Darriwilian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
458.18
Description
Massive coralla with prismatic corallites each with a single peripheral ring of about 20 longitudinal rows of slightly inclined thick trabeculae, those of neighboring corallites alternating or opposed, the thick common walls so formed may be pierced in horizontal zones by a row of irregularly rounded pores each caused by a local thinning of two neighboring trabeculae, tabulae distant, slightly sagging [see HILL, 1953, p. 158; PREOBRAZHENSKIY & KLAAMANN, 1975, p. 133].
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Sarcinulida
Family:
Syringophyllidae
Subfamily:
Lyoporinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Lyopora Nicholson & ETHERIDGE, 1878, p. 25
Type Species:
Palaeopora? favosa MCCOY, 1850, p. 285, M, syntypes A5526, 5527, SM, Cambridge
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 342,1a,b. *L. favosa (McCov), M.Ord., Craighead Ls., Scot., Girvan, Ayrshire, a,b, long., transv. secs., X4 (Hill, n, UQF27459).
Synonyms
Liopara
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Scot.-Nor.-Est.)-Asia (Sib. Platf.)-Australia (Tasm.)-N. Am. (Ont.-N.Y.), U.Ord.(Ashgill.), Asia(Kazakh.?Shoria Mts.)-N.Am.(?Manit.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Ord.
Beginning International Stage:
Dapingian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
471.26
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Ord.
Ending International Stage:
Darriwilian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
458.18
Description
Massive coralla with prismatic corallites each with a single peripheral ring of about 20 longitudinal rows of slightly inclined thick trabeculae, those of neighboring corallites alternating or opposed, the thick common walls so formed may be pierced in horizontal zones by a row of irregularly rounded pores each caused by a local thinning of two neighboring trabeculae, tabulae distant, slightly sagging [see HILL, 1953, p. 158; PREOBRAZHENSKIY & KLAAMANN, 1975, p. 133].