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Natalophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Favositida
    Suborder:  
Alveolitina
    Family:  
Alveolitidea
    Subfamily:  
Natalophyllina
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Natalophyllum RADUGIN, 1938, p. 79
    Type Species:  
N. giveticum, OD, +243, TGU, Tomsk


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Fig. 408,3a,b. *N. giveticum, M.Dev.(Givet.), Kuzbas, R. Mozalovski Kitat, a, b, long., transv. secs., X4 (Chudinova, 1964, photographs courtesy I. Chudinova).


Synonyms

Tyrganolithes


Geographic Distribution

Asia(Kuzbas-Altay-Sayan-C.Asia-SW.China)


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 coarsely branching, in axial zone of branch corallites rather thick-walled, with median suture, regularly prismatic and longitudinally directed, corallites enter wide peripheral zone by curving sharply almost at right angles, their walls thickening abruptly, and open perpendicularly to surface in compressed and thick-walled calices with weakly developed septal spines, pores small, numerous, tabulae thin.




References

Radugin, K. V., 1938, Coelenterata srednego devona okrestnostey s. Lebedyanskogo: Tomskago Ind. Inst., Izv., v. 56, no. 6, p. 49-109, text-fig. 1, 2, pl. 1-5. [Middle Devonian Coelenterata of the environs of Lebedyansk.] Rafinesque, C. S., 1815, Analyse de la nature ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés: 224 p., the author (Palermo).


Museum or Author Information

Chudinova, 1964