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Pseudogrypophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Ptenophyllina
    Family:  
Ptenophyllidae
    Subfamily:  
Ptenophyllinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pseudogrypophyllum CHEREPNINA, 1968, p. 159
    Type Species:  
P. limatum; OD; +G33-76, coli. 801, SNIIGGIMS, Novosibirsk


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Fossil Image
Fic. 150,4a-c. *P. limatum, Remnev Beds, Kamyshenka, a, b, holotype, transv., long. secs., X5, c, paratype, long. sec., X5 (Cherepnina, 1971).


Synonyms

Pseudogyrophyllum


Geographic Distribution

Asia (Altay Mts.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Dev.(Gedinn.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Lochkovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
419
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Dev.(Gedinn.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Lochkovian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
412.4


Description

Fasciculate, weakly branching, corallites slender, cylindrical, with narrow peripheral stereozone and long unequal septa arranged with indistinct bilateral symmetry, septa composed peripherally of spinose trabeculae with wide bases and thin ends, axially of ?(closely contiguous) acicular trabeculae, major septa reaching or almost reaching axis, cardinal septum longest, may join counter septum, tabulae concave, dissepiments large, in a few longitudinal series. [See CHEREPNINA, 1971, p. 89. Holotype possibly stringophyllid.]




References



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Cherepnina, 1971