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Pseudochonophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Ptenophyllina
    Family:  
Ptenophyllidae
    Subfamily:  
Ptenophyllinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pseudochonophyllum SOSHKINA, 1937, p. 59
    Type Species:  
Chonophyllum pseudohelianthoides SHERZER, 1892, p. 275, OD, †5298, UMMP, Ann Arbor


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Fossil Image
Fig. 148,Ia-c. * P. pseudohelianthoides (SHERZER), up. Koneprusy Ls., Boh., Zlaty Klul near Koneprusy; a,b, transv., oblique long. sees., X 1.3; c, extreme right portion of a, X6.4 (Oliver & Galle, 1971b; photographs courtesy W. A. Oliver).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.(Czech.-France-Urals)-Australia(New S.Wales-Queensl.)


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:  
L.Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Emsian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
394.3


Description

Solitary, rarely with single, small peripheral offset, calicular platform commonly everted, septa long, major and minor septa dilated, naotic in wide irregular peripheral zone, separated by very small dissepiments, lonsdaleoid dissepiments may disrupt naotic parts of septa, trabeculae of thick septa chonophylloid in arrangement, septa with xystriphylloid flanges in tabularium, tabularium narrow, tabulae close together, incomplete, with axial ?median notch [see STRUSZ, 1966, p. 563; OLIVER & GALLE, 1971b, p. 72].




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