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Lyrielasma

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Ptenophyllina
    Family:  
Ptenophyllidae
    Subfamily:  
Ptenophyllinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Lyrielasma HILL, 1939a, p. 243
    Type Species:  
Cyathophyllum subcaespitosum Chapman, 1925, p. 112, OD, †P1731, 14065, 15969-15972, NM, Melbourne, non Cyathophyllum subcaespitosum Meek, 1873, p. 470, and in King, 1877, p. 60, =Lyrielasma chapmani PEDDER, 1967a, p. 5, nom. subst.


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Fossil Image
Fig. 149,1a-d. *L. chapmani, holotype, L.Dev., Lilydale Ls., Viet., Lilydale; a,b, transv., eft, long. sees., approx. X3.5 (Hill, 1939a).


Synonyms

Acmophyllum, ?Salairophyllum


Geographic Distribution

N.Am.(Me.), L.Dev., Australia(Vict.-New S. Wales-Queensl.)-Eu.(Urals-? France-? Carnic Alps)-Asia(Altay-Sayan)-?N.Am.(Me.), M.Dev., Asia (NE.USSR)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Sil.(Pridol.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Pridoli
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
422.73
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Sil.(Pridol.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Pridoli
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
419


Description

Solitary to fasciculate with subcylindrical corallites, increase peripheral, nonparricidal, wide peripheral stereozone of unequal width, septa radially or pinnately arranged, strongly flanged in tabularium in early stages, septal trabeculae more or less horizontal, dissepiments elongate, steeply inclined and rarely lonsdaleoid, rare or absent in early stages, tabular floors axially depressed, tabellae closely spaced and subplanar




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