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Pachypora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Pachyporicae
Family:
Pachyporidea
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Pachypora LINDSTRÖM, 1873a, p. 14
Type Species:
P. lamellicornis, M, syntypes Cn580, 583-5, 587, 592, 596, 598, 600, 58592, RM, Stockholm
Images
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Fig. 385,2a-d. *P. lamellicornis, Gotl., near Visby; a,b, long., transv. secs., X4; c, ext. view, d, outline of cross section, ab,
of frond, XI (Lindstrom, 1896b).
Synonyms
Thamnopora, ?Pachypora
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Gotl.); Sil., Asia(?China)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Sil.(low.Wenlock.)
Beginning International Stage:
Sheinwoodian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
432.93
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Sil.(low.Wenlock.)
Ending International Stage:
Sheinwoodian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
430.62
Description
Corallum frondescent; corallites directed longitudinally in median parts of frond and with somewhat thickened walls diverging sharply to open obliquely or perpendicularly to surface of frond; calices polymorphous, alveolitoid to polyhedral; in peripheral parts of fronds walls very thick and growth lamellae ?(pseudolamellae) continuous across median sutures between neighboring corallites; septal spines present in some calices; mural pores arranged in rows parallel to surface of frond; tabulae sparse, thin [see LINDSTROM, 1896b, p. 23].
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Pachyporicae
Family:
Pachyporidea
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Pachypora LINDSTRÖM, 1873a, p. 14
Type Species:
P. lamellicornis, M, syntypes Cn580, 583-5, 587, 592, 596, 598, 600, 58592, RM, Stockholm
Images
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Fig. 385,2a-d. *P. lamellicornis, Gotl., near Visby; a,b, long., transv. secs., X4; c, ext. view, d, outline of cross section, ab,
of frond, XI (Lindstrom, 1896b).
Synonyms
Thamnopora, ?Pachypora
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Gotl.); Sil., Asia(?China)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Sil.(low.Wenlock.)
Beginning International Stage:
Sheinwoodian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
432.93
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
M.Sil.(low.Wenlock.)
Ending International Stage:
Sheinwoodian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
430.62
Description
Corallum frondescent; corallites directed longitudinally in median parts of frond and with somewhat thickened walls diverging sharply to open obliquely or perpendicularly to surface of frond; calices polymorphous, alveolitoid to polyhedral; in peripheral parts of fronds walls very thick and growth lamellae ?(pseudolamellae) continuous across median sutures between neighboring corallites; septal spines present in some calices; mural pores arranged in rows parallel to surface of frond; tabulae sparse, thin [see LINDSTROM, 1896b, p. 23].