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Pachyhelioplasma

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Heliolitida
    Suborder:  
Heliolitina
    Superfamily:  
Helioliticae
    Family:  
Pseudoplasmoporidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pachyhelioplasma KIM, 1966, p. 57
    Type Species:  
P. kettnerovae, OD, †435/1, coll. 9490, TsGM, Leningrad


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Fossil Image
Fig. 415,2a,b, *P. kettnerovae, ?M.Dev.(Eifel.), Zeravshan-Gissar Ra., basin R. Kashkadari, Khodza-Kurgan Gully, a, b, transv., long. sees., XI0 (Kim, 1966).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Asia(Tien Shan-Kazakh.)


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 of variable form, tabularia cylindrical, with aureole of 12 tubules rounded-polygonal in section and reticulum of somewhat smaller tubules, walls all thickened, not discontinuous, septal spines reduced or absent, tabulae flat, concave or incomplete and oblique




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