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Pachycanalicula

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Heliolitida
    Suborder:  
Heliolitina
    Superfamily:  
Helioliticae
    Family:  
Heliolitidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pachycanalicula WENTZEL, 1895, p. 503
    Type Species:  
Heliolites barrandei Hoernes in Penecke, 1887, p. 271, OD, †no. P577, UG, Graz, lectotype by FLÜGEL, 1956a, p. 76


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Fig. 410.5. *P. barrandei (Hoernes in Penecke), lectotype, M.Dev.(?Givet.), Aus., St. Gotthart, Graz, long. sec., X4 (Flügel, 1956a).


Synonyms

Heliolites


Geographic Distribution

Eu. (E. Alps-Graz-Carnic Alps-France-Urals)-Australia(Queensl.-New S.Wales)-Asia(Kuzbas-Salair-Kazakh.-C.Asia-Kolyma Basin)?N.Am. (fide Sokolov, 1962c, p. 279)


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 rounded, corallites cylindrical, relatively thick-walled, well-developed septal spines present or absent, tabulae thin, horizontal, tubules polygonal, relatively thick-walled




References

Wentzel, Josef, 1895, Zur Kenntnis der Zoantharia Tabulata: (K.) Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.naturwiss. Kl, Denkschr., v. 62, p. 479-516, pl. 1-5.


Museum or Author Information

Flügel, 1956