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Pseudofavosites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Favositida
    Suborder:  
Favositina
    Superfamily:  
Favositicae
    Family:  
Pseudofavositidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pseudofavosites GERTH, 1921, p. 101
    Type Species:  
P. stylifer; M; syntypes 33, 34, WANNER Coli., IP, Bonn and 11800, 11801, TH, Delft


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Fossil Image
Fig. 369,3a,b. *P. stylifer, syntypes, Basleo, a, ext. view, X1.3, b, colony with strongly thickened skeleton, X1.3 (Gerth, 1921)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Asia(Timor)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Perm.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Wuchiapingian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
259.55
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Corallum subspherical, cerioid, commonly encircling crinoid stems, walls may be distally produced at angle between corallites as short, coarse, aporose spines, septa 12, short, lamellar at base, acanthine adaxially, mural pores present between septa and within septal bases between spines, no tabulae




References



Museum or Author Information

Gerth, 1921