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Lytvophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Lonsdaleiina
    Family:  
Petalaxidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Lytvophyllum Dobrolyubova in Soshkina, Dobrolyubova, & PORFIREV, 1941, p. 146
    Type Species:  
Thysanophyllum tschernowi Soshkina, 1925, p. 98, OD, †921, coll. 146, PIN, Moscow, SD Dobrolyubova in Soshkina, Dobrolyubova, & PORFIREV, 1941, p. 147


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Fig. 263,2a-e. *L. tsehernowi (SOSHKINA), holotype, L.Perm.(Artinsk.), S. Urals, R. Lytva; a,b, transv., e, long. sees., X3.5 (Soshkina, Dobrolyubova, & Porfirev, 1941).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.(Donbas); L.Perm., Eu.(Urals)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Carb.(Namur.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Serpukhovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
330.34
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Carb.(Bashkir)
    Ending International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
315.15


Description

Fasciculate; corallites of variable morphology; thick laminar columella attached to long major septum commonly present; often major septa somewhat withdrawn from axis; dlsseplmentarium commonly lonsdaleoid with minor septa or both major and minor septa discontinuous; tabulae subhorizontal, complete or incomplete.




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