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Modesta
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Stauriina
Family:
Stauriidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Modesta CHEREPNINA, 1962, p. 140
Type Species:
M. prima; OD; t445-577, colI. 405, SNIIGGIMS, Novosibirsk
Images
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Fig. 71,5a,b. *M. prima, holotype, Altay Mts., USSR, right bank of Muta Cr., 2 km. SE. of Bolshaya Muta; a,b, long., transv. sees., X2.7 (Cherepnina, 1962; photographs courtesy of S. K. Cherepnina).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Altay Mts.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Ord.
Beginning International Stage:
Sandbian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
458.18
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Ord.
Ending International Stage:
Hirnantian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
443.07
Description
Corallum small, fasciculate, corallites with deep, sharp-edged calice and two orders of septa laterally contiguous in wide peripheral stereozone each septum composed of a single longitudinal series of contiguous trabeculae directed upward and inward; ?cardinal septum long, other major septa moderately long, directed toward it but not reaching it; no tabulae [none observed].
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Stauriina
Family:
Stauriidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Modesta CHEREPNINA, 1962, p. 140
Type Species:
M. prima; OD; t445-577, colI. 405, SNIIGGIMS, Novosibirsk
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 71,5a,b. *M. prima, holotype, Altay Mts., USSR, right bank of Muta Cr., 2 km. SE. of Bolshaya Muta; a,b, long., transv. sees., X2.7 (Cherepnina, 1962; photographs courtesy of S. K. Cherepnina).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Altay Mts.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Ord.
Beginning International Stage:
Sandbian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
458.18
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Ord.
Ending International Stage:
Hirnantian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
443.07
Description
Corallum small, fasciculate, corallites with deep, sharp-edged calice and two orders of septa laterally contiguous in wide peripheral stereozone each septum composed of a single longitudinal series of contiguous trabeculae directed upward and inward; ?cardinal septum long, other major septa moderately long, directed toward it but not reaching it; no tabulae [none observed].