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Pilophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Ketophyllina
    Family:  
Kyphophyllidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pilophyllum WEDEKIND, 1927, p. 34
    Type Species:  
P. Keyserlingi; OD; +11099-11 101, WEDEKIND Coll., SM, Frankfurt


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Fig. 140,2a,b. *P. keyserlingi, holotype, V.Sil., Gotl., Lindeklint; a,b, transv., long. secs., X 2 (Hill, n; photographs courtesy R. Birenheide).


Synonyms

Neokyphophyllum


Geographic Distribution

Eu. (Gotl.-?Est.-Pol.- ?Podolia); ?L. Dev. (Lochkov.), Asia (Tadzhik.- Kazakh.-Salair)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Gorstian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
426.74
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Ludfordian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
422.73


Description

Solitary or (less commonly) fasciculate; marginarium a septal stereozone in- terrupted by lonsdaleoid dissepiments; major septa thin and convolute in wide tabularium; with indistinct cardinal fossula; tabulae incomplete; floors domed with subhorizontal edges, and in places with shallow axial depression; cardinal fossula indistinct.




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