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Mucophyllum
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Streptelasmatina
Family:
Mucophyllidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Mucophyllum ETHERIDGE, 1894, p. 12
Type Species:
M. crateroides, OD, †F3048, AM, Sydney, lectotype by HILL, 1940c, p. 400
Images
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Fig. 102,1a-c. *M. crateroides, U.Sil., New S. Wales, Yass, a, long. sec., b, part of tang. sec. of septa, c, part of transv. sec. of septa, all X1 (after Etheridge, 1894, and Lang, 1926).
Synonyms
Mycophyllum
Geographic Distribution
Australia(New S.Wales-Queensl.)-?Eu.(Gotl.)-Asia (Manchuria-?Szechuan), L.Dev., N.Am.(Nev.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Gorstian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
426.74
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.
Ending International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
419
Description
Solitary, broadly trumpet-shaped, with tabularium surrounded by peripheral stereozone as wide as minor septa are long, and formed by contiguous thick septa of rhabdacanthine trabeculae, stereozone extending at calice into very wide rim that may be everted, major septa but little longer than minor, tabulae horizontal, complete, may be greatly thickened, no dissepiments
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Rugosa
Order:
Stauriida
Suborder:
Streptelasmatina
Family:
Mucophyllidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Mucophyllum ETHERIDGE, 1894, p. 12
Type Species:
M. crateroides, OD, †F3048, AM, Sydney, lectotype by HILL, 1940c, p. 400
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 102,1a-c. *M. crateroides, U.Sil., New S. Wales, Yass, a, long. sec., b, part of tang. sec. of septa, c, part of transv. sec. of septa, all X1 (after Etheridge, 1894, and Lang, 1926).
Synonyms
Mycophyllum
Geographic Distribution
Australia(New S.Wales-Queensl.)-?Eu.(Gotl.)-Asia (Manchuria-?Szechuan), L.Dev., N.Am.(Nev.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Gorstian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
426.74
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.
Ending International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
419
Description
Solitary, broadly trumpet-shaped, with tabularium surrounded by peripheral stereozone as wide as minor septa are long, and formed by contiguous thick septa of rhabdacanthine trabeculae, stereozone extending at calice into very wide rim that may be everted, major septa but little longer than minor, tabulae horizontal, complete, may be greatly thickened, no dissepiments