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Michelinia
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Micheliniidae
Subfamily:
Micheliniinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Michelinia DE KONINCK, 1841, p. 29, non Michelinia DUJARDIN & HUPE, 1862, an echinoid
Type Species:
Calamopora tenttiseptata PHILLIPS, 1836, p. 201; SD MILNE-EDWARDS & HAIME, 1850, p. Ix; +lectotype here chosen, R333, W. GILBERTSON Call., BM (NH), London
Images
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Fig. 374,2a-c. *M. tenuiseptata (PHILLIPS); a, ext. view, X1 (Phillips, 1836); b,c, lectotype, Yorkshire, Bolland, transv., long. sees., X4 (Hill, n; photographs courtesy H. D. Thomas).
Synonyms
Conopoterium, Eumichelinia, ?Cystomichelinia,
Geographic Distribution
N.Afr.(Alg.-Moroc.)-N.Am.(ant.-Mich.-Ind.-Ky.); Carb.-Perm., cosmop. except S.Am
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Lochkovian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
419
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Givetian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
378.9
Description
Corallum cerioid with strong holotheca; corallites large and moderately rounded in section to small and polygonal; walls thin to moderately thick with median suture and projecting short septal trabeculae (may be holacanthine); mural pores large, tunnel-like and sparse; tabulae commonly incomplete, somewhat globose, and not forming regular pattern of inclination, some thickened and some carrying septal spinules on upper surface.
References
Mather, K. F., 1915, The fauna of the Morrow Group of Arkansas and Oklahoma: Denison Univ., Bull. Sci. Lab., v. 18, pt. 3, p. 59-284, pl. 1-16.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Micheliniidae
Subfamily:
Micheliniinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Michelinia DE KONINCK, 1841, p. 29, non Michelinia DUJARDIN & HUPE, 1862, an echinoid
Type Species:
Calamopora tenttiseptata PHILLIPS, 1836, p. 201; SD MILNE-EDWARDS & HAIME, 1850, p. Ix; +lectotype here chosen, R333, W. GILBERTSON Call., BM (NH), London
Images
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Fig. 374,2a-c. *M. tenuiseptata (PHILLIPS); a, ext. view, X1 (Phillips, 1836); b,c, lectotype, Yorkshire, Bolland, transv., long. sees., X4 (Hill, n; photographs courtesy H. D. Thomas).
Synonyms
Conopoterium, Eumichelinia, ?Cystomichelinia,
Geographic Distribution
N.Afr.(Alg.-Moroc.)-N.Am.(ant.-Mich.-Ind.-Ky.); Carb.-Perm., cosmop. except S.Am
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Lochkovian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
419
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Givetian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
378.9
Description
Corallum cerioid with strong holotheca; corallites large and moderately rounded in section to small and polygonal; walls thin to moderately thick with median suture and projecting short septal trabeculae (may be holacanthine); mural pores large, tunnel-like and sparse; tabulae commonly incomplete, somewhat globose, and not forming regular pattern of inclination, some thickened and some carrying septal spinules on upper surface.
References
Mather, K. F., 1915, The fauna of the Morrow Group of Arkansas and Oklahoma: Denison Univ., Bull. Sci. Lab., v. 18, pt. 3, p. 59-284, pl. 1-16.