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Micula
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Arachinophyllina
Family:
Expressophyllidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Micula SYTOVA, 1952, p. 133
Type Species:
M. antiqua, OD, † neotype 62, coll. 454, PIN, Moscow, SD SYTOVA, 1970, p. 73
Images
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Fig. 131,la,b. *M. antiqua, paratypes, M.Sil. (Wenlock.), W. slope of C. Urals, N. shore of Mikhailovskii pond; a,b, transv., long. sees., X4 (Sytova. 1952). --Fig. 131,1c,d. M. simplex (STRELNIKOV), holotype, U.Sil.(Ludlov.), Durnayuiskiy horizon, Polar Urals, R. Kozhim; c,d, transv., long. sees., X 4 (Strelnikov, 1968b).
Synonyms
Expressophylluni
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Polar Urals-Vaygach-C.Urals)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Sheinwoodian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
432.93
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Emsian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
394.3
Description
Solitary, calicular platform erect or but slightly declined adaxially, marginarium moderately wide stereozone in which narrow interseptal loculi may develop increasingly in later stages, with small, globose, and concentric or angulate dissepiments, septa thickened in dissepimentarium, septal trabeculae directed inward and slightly upward, ?uniseriate, tabularium wide, tabular floors flattened domes with edges irregularly turned out or up and with elongate subhorizontal tabellae in wide axial zone, cardinal fossula indistinct, one perpheral offset may arise from calice.
References
Sytova, V. A., 1952, Korally semeystva Kyphophyllidae iz verkhnego silura Urala: Akad. Nauk SSSR, Paleontol. Inst., Tr., v. 40, p. 127-158, text-fig. 1-19, pl. 1-6. [Corals of the family Kyphophyllidae from the Upper Silurian of the Urals.] 1968, Tetrakorally skalskogo $i$ borschchovskogo gorizontov Podolii: in Z. G. Balashov (ed.), Siluriysko-Devonskaya fauna Podolii, p. 51-71, pl. 1-5, Nauch. Issled. Inst. Zemnoy Kory. Paleontol. Lab., Leningrad Univ. (Leningrad). [Tetracorals of the Skalian and Borshchovian horizons in Podolia: in Silurian-Devonian fauna of Podolia.] 1970, Tetrakorally grebenskogo gorizonta Vaygacha: in S. V. Cherkesova (ed.), Stratigrafiya i fauna siluriyskikh otlozheniy Vaygacha (Sbornik statey), p. 65-86, pl. 1-10, Nauchno-issled. Inst. Geol. Arktiki (NIIGA) (Leningrad). [Tetracorals of the Grebeni horizon of Vaygach: in Stratigraphy and fauna of the Silurian deposits of Vaygach.] 1971, O range semeystva u tetrakorallov: Vopr. Paleontol., v. 6, p. 15-18. [On the rank of families in the tetracorals.] —, \& Kaplan, A. A. V., 1975, Tetrakorally: in V. V. Menner (ed.), Kharakteristika fauny pogranichnykh sloev silura i devona Tsentralnogo Kazakhstana: Mater. geol. Tsentr. Kaz., v. 12, p. 61-76, pl. 11-17. [Tetracorals: in Characteristic faunas of the Silurian-Devonian boundary beds of Central Kazakhstan.] —, \& Ulitina, L. M., 1966, Rugozy icenskoy i biotarskoy svit: in N. P. Chetverikova, V. A. Sytova, G. T. Ushatinskaya, N. B. Keller, O. B. Bondarenko, \& L. M. Ulitina, Stratigrafiya i fauna siluriyskikh i nizhnedevonskikh otlozheniy Nurinskogo sinklinoriya: Mater. geol. Tsentr. Kaz., v. 6, p. 198-253, pl. 35-48. [Rugosa of the Icenian and Biotarian formations: in Stratigraphy and fauna of the Silurian and Devonian deposits of the Nurin synclinorium.] 1970, Nekotorye pozdneeyfelskie rugozy Zakavkazya: in G. G. Astrova \& I. I. Chudinova (eds.), Novye vidy palcozoyskikh mshanok i korallov, p. 117-120, pl. 43, Nauka (Moscow). [Some late Eifelian Rugosa from Transcaucasia: in New species of Paleozoic bryozoans and corals.] Taverner-Smith, Ronald, \& Williams, Alwyn, 1972, The secretion and structure of the skeleton of living and fossil Bryozoa: R. Soc. London, Philos. Trans. (B), v. 264, p. 97-160, text-fig. 1-204, pl. 6-30.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Arachinophyllina
Family:
Expressophyllidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Micula SYTOVA, 1952, p. 133
Type Species:
M. antiqua, OD, † neotype 62, coll. 454, PIN, Moscow, SD SYTOVA, 1970, p. 73
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 131,la,b. *M. antiqua, paratypes, M.Sil. (Wenlock.), W. slope of C. Urals, N. shore of Mikhailovskii pond; a,b, transv., long. sees., X4 (Sytova. 1952). --Fig. 131,1c,d. M. simplex (STRELNIKOV), holotype, U.Sil.(Ludlov.), Durnayuiskiy horizon, Polar Urals, R. Kozhim; c,d, transv., long. sees., X 4 (Strelnikov, 1968b).
Synonyms
Expressophylluni
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Polar Urals-Vaygach-C.Urals)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Sheinwoodian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
432.93
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Emsian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
394.3
Description
Solitary, calicular platform erect or but slightly declined adaxially, marginarium moderately wide stereozone in which narrow interseptal loculi may develop increasingly in later stages, with small, globose, and concentric or angulate dissepiments, septa thickened in dissepimentarium, septal trabeculae directed inward and slightly upward, ?uniseriate, tabularium wide, tabular floors flattened domes with edges irregularly turned out or up and with elongate subhorizontal tabellae in wide axial zone, cardinal fossula indistinct, one perpheral offset may arise from calice.
References
Sytova, V. A., 1952, Korally semeystva Kyphophyllidae iz verkhnego silura Urala: Akad. Nauk SSSR, Paleontol. Inst., Tr., v. 40, p. 127-158, text-fig. 1-19, pl. 1-6. [Corals of the family Kyphophyllidae from the Upper Silurian of the Urals.] 1968, Tetrakorally skalskogo $i$ borschchovskogo gorizontov Podolii: in Z. G. Balashov (ed.), Siluriysko-Devonskaya fauna Podolii, p. 51-71, pl. 1-5, Nauch. Issled. Inst. Zemnoy Kory. Paleontol. Lab., Leningrad Univ. (Leningrad). [Tetracorals of the Skalian and Borshchovian horizons in Podolia: in Silurian-Devonian fauna of Podolia.] 1970, Tetrakorally grebenskogo gorizonta Vaygacha: in S. V. Cherkesova (ed.), Stratigrafiya i fauna siluriyskikh otlozheniy Vaygacha (Sbornik statey), p. 65-86, pl. 1-10, Nauchno-issled. Inst. Geol. Arktiki (NIIGA) (Leningrad). [Tetracorals of the Grebeni horizon of Vaygach: in Stratigraphy and fauna of the Silurian deposits of Vaygach.] 1971, O range semeystva u tetrakorallov: Vopr. Paleontol., v. 6, p. 15-18. [On the rank of families in the tetracorals.] —, \& Kaplan, A. A. V., 1975, Tetrakorally: in V. V. Menner (ed.), Kharakteristika fauny pogranichnykh sloev silura i devona Tsentralnogo Kazakhstana: Mater. geol. Tsentr. Kaz., v. 12, p. 61-76, pl. 11-17. [Tetracorals: in Characteristic faunas of the Silurian-Devonian boundary beds of Central Kazakhstan.] —, \& Ulitina, L. M., 1966, Rugozy icenskoy i biotarskoy svit: in N. P. Chetverikova, V. A. Sytova, G. T. Ushatinskaya, N. B. Keller, O. B. Bondarenko, \& L. M. Ulitina, Stratigrafiya i fauna siluriyskikh i nizhnedevonskikh otlozheniy Nurinskogo sinklinoriya: Mater. geol. Tsentr. Kaz., v. 6, p. 198-253, pl. 35-48. [Rugosa of the Icenian and Biotarian formations: in Stratigraphy and fauna of the Silurian and Devonian deposits of the Nurin synclinorium.] 1970, Nekotorye pozdneeyfelskie rugozy Zakavkazya: in G. G. Astrova \& I. I. Chudinova (eds.), Novye vidy palcozoyskikh mshanok i korallov, p. 117-120, pl. 43, Nauka (Moscow). [Some late Eifelian Rugosa from Transcaucasia: in New species of Paleozoic bryozoans and corals.] Taverner-Smith, Ronald, \& Williams, Alwyn, 1972, The secretion and structure of the skeleton of living and fossil Bryozoa: R. Soc. London, Philos. Trans. (B), v. 264, p. 97-160, text-fig. 1-204, pl. 6-30.