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Multisolenia
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Multisoleniidae
Subfamily:
Multisoleniina
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Multisolenia FRITZ, 1937, p. 231
Type Species:
M. tortuosa, OD, +1154, ROM, Toronto
Images
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Fig. 370,1a,b. *M. tortuosa, M.Sil.(Niag.), Thornloe F., Can., Mann I. (=Burnt I.), L.Timiskaming, Ost.-Que., a, b, long., transv. secs., X10,X4 (Bolton, 1965).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
N.Afr.-Eu.(U.K.-Gotl.-Est.-Podolia-Czech.)-Asia (Urals-Arctic-Sib. Platf.-Ka-zakh.-Kuzbas-NE. USSR-China) Australia (New S. Wales-Queensl.)-N. Am.(Ont.-Que.-Manit.-Yukon-Alaska-Mich.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Rhuddanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
443.07
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Ending International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
419
Description
Corallum cerioid, pseudomeandroid, corallites thin-walled, cylindroprismatic, each with up to four longitudinal rows of more or less regularly spaced, rounded, radial protuberances, each meeting a similar one from another corallite in a large pore which may have a pore diaphragm, corallites thus connected normally have no prism face in common, tabulae subhorizontal, complete, septal spines sparse. [LELESHUS, 1970b, p. 65, considered 12 specific names to be subjective synonyms of 3 specific names.]
References
Fritz, M. A., 1937, Multisolenia, a new genus of Paleozoic corals: J. Paleontol., v. 11, p. 231-234, 6 text-fig.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Multisoleniidae
Subfamily:
Multisoleniina
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Multisolenia FRITZ, 1937, p. 231
Type Species:
M. tortuosa, OD, +1154, ROM, Toronto
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 370,1a,b. *M. tortuosa, M.Sil.(Niag.), Thornloe F., Can., Mann I. (=Burnt I.), L.Timiskaming, Ost.-Que., a, b, long., transv. secs., X10,X4 (Bolton, 1965).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
N.Afr.-Eu.(U.K.-Gotl.-Est.-Podolia-Czech.)-Asia (Urals-Arctic-Sib. Platf.-Ka-zakh.-Kuzbas-NE. USSR-China) Australia (New S. Wales-Queensl.)-N. Am.(Ont.-Que.-Manit.-Yukon-Alaska-Mich.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Rhuddanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
443.07
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Ending International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
419
Description
Corallum cerioid, pseudomeandroid, corallites thin-walled, cylindroprismatic, each with up to four longitudinal rows of more or less regularly spaced, rounded, radial protuberances, each meeting a similar one from another corallite in a large pore which may have a pore diaphragm, corallites thus connected normally have no prism face in common, tabulae subhorizontal, complete, septal spines sparse. [LELESHUS, 1970b, p. 65, considered 12 specific names to be subjective synonyms of 3 specific names.]
References
Fritz, M. A., 1937, Multisolenia, a new genus of Paleozoic corals: J. Paleontol., v. 11, p. 231-234, 6 text-fig.