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Mesofavosites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Favositida
    Suborder:  
Favositina
    Superfamily:  
Favositicae
    Family:  
Favositidae
    Subfamily:  
Paleofavositinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Mesofavosites SOKOLOV, 1951b, p. 59
    Type Species:  
M. dualis, OD, †56, coll. 292, VNIGRI, Leningrad


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Fig. 362,2a,b. *M. dualis, holotype, U.Ord.(Ashgill.), Est., Porkuni, a, b, transv., long. secs., X3.2 (Sokolov, 1951b).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu. (Nor.-Est.-G. Brit.-Podolia-Urals)Asia (N. Zemlya-Taymyr-Sib. Platf.-NE. Iran-Ka-zakh.-Tadzhik.-Uzbek.-Salair -NE. USSR) -N. Am. (Alaska)-Australia(Queensl.), L.Dev., Asia(Kazakh.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Ord.(Ashgill.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Katian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
66.7
    Beginning Date:  
447.72
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Ludfordian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
422.73


Description

Corallum massive, cerioid, corallites thin-walled, prismatic, mural pores on faces as well as at edges of faces of prisms, septal spines present or absent, tabulae subhorizontal.




References



Museum or Author Information

Sokolov, 1951