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Paraconularia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Scyphozoa
    Subclass:  
Conulata
    Order:  
Conulariida
    Suborder:  
Conulariina
    Family:  
Conulariidae
    Subfamily:  
Paraconulariinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Paraconularia SINCLAIR, 1940
    Type Species:  
Conularia inaequicostata DEKONINCK, 1883


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Fig. 50,1. *P. inaequicostata (Kon.), L.Carb(Tournais.), Belg.; 1a-c, X1 and enlarged (24-). -- Fig. 50,2. P. blairi (MILLER & GURLEY), L.Miss.(Kinderhook.) , Mo.; X1 (27-). -- Fig. 50,6. P. tubericosta (SANDBERGER), L.Carb., Eng.; X1 (form identified by SLATER as Conularia quadrisulcata) (SLATER). -- Fig. 50,3. P. tenuistriata (M'Coy), Perm., India; X1 (33-). -- Fig. 50,4. P. irregularis (KON.), L.Carb. (Vise.), Belg.; X1 (24-). -- Fig. 50,5. P. worthi (WAAGEN), Perm., India; 5a,b, X1 (33-). -- Fig. 50,7. P. laetJigata (MORRIS), Perm., India; 7a,b, X1; 7c,d, enlarged (33-).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.-N.Am.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Sil.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Sheinwoodian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
432.93
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.
    Ending International Stage:  
Serpukhovian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
323.4


Description

Transverse ribs moderately strong, faintly tuberculate, abruptly bent adaperturally at their terminations on edges of corner furrows, mid-line on faces indicated only by slight deflection of ribs along it.




References

Sinclair, G. W., 1940, A discussion of the genus Metaconularia with descriptions of new species: Roy. Soc. Canada, Trans., ser. 3, v. 34, sec. 4, p. 101-121, pl. 1-3.


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