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Nephelophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Lonsdaleiina
    Family:  
Petalaxidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Nephelophyllum Wu & ZHAO, 1974, p. 272
    Type Species:  
*N. simplex, OD, + 21889-21890$, IGP, Nanking


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Fossil Image
Fig. 266,3a,b. *N. simplex, holotype, Maping F., W. Kweichow, Toupo, Weining, a, b, transv., long. secs., X2 (Wu, Chang,& Ching, 1974).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Asia (Kweichow)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Carb.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
323.4
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Carb.
    Ending International Stage:  
Gzhelian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
298.89


Description

Cerioid or in part aphroid, common wall when present a narrow peripheral stereozone of contiguous septal bases, axial column narrow, simple median plate with few short radial lamellae and conical tabellae, pericolumnar tabulae subhorizontal or sagging, with clinotabulae peripherally, marginarium mainly lonsdaleoid dissepimentarium except in early stages of offsets, where septa longitudinally contiguous and thickened




References



Museum or Author Information

Wu, Chang, & Ching, 1974