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Pachyfavosites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Favositida
    Suborder:  
Favositina
    Superfamily:  
Favositicae
    Family:  
Favositidae
    Subfamily:  
Pachyfavositinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pachyfavosites SOKOLOV, 1952b, p. 43, as subgenus of Favosites LAMARCK, 1816
    Type Species:  
Calamopora polymorpha var. tuberosa GOLDFUSS, 1826, p. 74; +259, GOLDFUSS ColI., IP, Bonn, figured GOLDFUSS, 1826, pI. 27, fig. 2a; lectotype by SOKOLOV, 1952b, p. 43


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Fossil Image
Fig. 363,3a,b. *P. polymorphus (Goldfuss), lectotype, M.Dev., Eifel, a, transv. sec. of colony, b, transv. and oblique sec., X2.6 (Lecompte, 1936)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.(Pol.-Czech.-U.K.-France Belg.-Ger.-Podolia-USSR)-N.Afr.-Asia(China-Viet Nam-Urals-Kuzbas-Altaya-C.Asia-Kazakh.-Kolyma Basin) -Australia (New S. Wales-Queens!') -N. Am. (?Alaska).


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.(Eifel.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Eifelian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
385.3


Description

Corallum of moderate size, nodular or elongate; corallites prismatic with moderately thick, dense walls; lumen rounded or rounded-polygonal in transverse section; pores large and well developed in one or two longitudinal rows to a corallite face; tabulae commonly complete; septal spines may be present.




References



Museum or Author Information

Lecompte, 1936