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Neomultithecopora

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Auloporida
    Superfamily:  
Syringoporicae
    Family:  
Multithecoporidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Neomultithecopora LIN, 1963a, p. 593
    Type Species:  
N. syringoporoides, OD, tsample N zhuan-58-gu-162, location not traced


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Fossil Image
Fig. 452,2a,b. *N. syringoporoides, holotype, China, Duan distr., Guangxi Prov., a, b, long., transv. secs., X4 (Lin, 1963a).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Asia(S.China), Carb.(Visean-Namur.), Eu.(N.Zemlya-Urals)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.(Visean)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
346.73
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.(Visean)
    Ending International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
330.34


Description

Corallum branching, not large, increase lateral, corallites regularly cylindrical, with rare connecting tubuli, epitheca transversely wrinkled, walls thick, tabulae complete, concave or in places infundibuliform, with or without axial syrinx, septal spines in multiples of six in longitudinal rows [Possibly would be better placed in Roemeriidae, but is not known to be cerioid proximally. See KACHANOV, 1967, p. 25.]




References



Museum or Author Information

Lin, 1963