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Peneckiella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Columnariina
    Family:  
Phillipsastreidae
    Subfamily:  
Group 4
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Peneckiella SOSHKINA, 1939, p. 23
    Type Species:  
*Diphyphyllum minus ROEMER, 1855, p. 29; OD; +117, BA, Clausthal-Zellerfeld


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Fossil Image
Fig. 186,2a,b. *P. minor (Roemer), holotype, Frasn., Iberg Ls., Ger., Winterburg near Bad Grund, a, b, oblique transv., long. secs., X3,X6 (Scrutton, 1968).


Synonyms

Penenckiella, Phacellophyllum


Geographic Distribution

Australia(New S.Wales), ?M.Dev.(Givet.), W.Australia-N.Am.(Wash.), U. Dev. (Frasn.), Eu. (Ger.-U.K.-Pol.)-W. Australia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L. Dev.(Ems.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Emsian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
410.51
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L. Dev.(Ems.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Emsian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
394.3


Description

Phaceloid, septa noncarinate but thickened especially at inner edge of dissepimentarium, which is narrow and commonly of one series of globose plates flattened above, each with its inner edge curved down in three-fourths hemisphere to meet plate next below and its outer edge abutting wall at level higher than base of inner edge (peneckielloid), rarely one or a few horseshoe dissepiments are found, septal trabecular fans may occur with zone of divergence at axis of curvature of upper surface of dissepiments, trabeculae rhipidacanths, tabulae commonly in one series and complete, may be flat-topped domes, peripheral tabellae declined adaxially may occur [HILL & JELL, 1970b, p. 30; SCRUTTON, 1968, p.271]




References



Museum or Author Information

Scrutton, 1968