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Riphaeolites
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Cleistoporidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Riphaeolites YANET in SOKOLOV, 1955, p. 169
Type Species:
R. sokolovi; OD; +184/3, coll. 270, UGUp, Sverdlovsk
Images
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Fig. 381, 2a,b. *R. sokolovi, holotype, L.Dev.(Coblenz.), E. slope of N. Urals, near Karpinsky, right bank of R. Toty, 2,180 m. above Toty; a,b, transv., long. secs., X4 (Kiparisova et al., 1956).
Synonyms
Rhiphaeolites
Geographic Distribution
Asia(E.slope,N.Urals)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Gorstian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
426.74
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Emsian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
394.3
Description
Corallum crustose, with well-developed holotheca; corallites prismatic; in early stages corallites inclined and favositoid; in adult, erect stages, corallites have a wide peripheral stereozone pierced by numerous mural pore tunnels and composed of otherwise contiguous thickened septal bases from which numerous thin septal spines may project adaxially; lumina of irregularly rounded outline; tabulae numerous, commonly irregular and incomplete. [Possibly a theciid; no septal counts available.]
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Cleistoporidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Riphaeolites YANET in SOKOLOV, 1955, p. 169
Type Species:
R. sokolovi; OD; +184/3, coll. 270, UGUp, Sverdlovsk
Images
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Fig. 381, 2a,b. *R. sokolovi, holotype, L.Dev.(Coblenz.), E. slope of N. Urals, near Karpinsky, right bank of R. Toty, 2,180 m. above Toty; a,b, transv., long. secs., X4 (Kiparisova et al., 1956).
Synonyms
Rhiphaeolites
Geographic Distribution
Asia(E.slope,N.Urals)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Gorstian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
426.74
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Emsian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
394.3
Description
Corallum crustose, with well-developed holotheca; corallites prismatic; in early stages corallites inclined and favositoid; in adult, erect stages, corallites have a wide peripheral stereozone pierced by numerous mural pore tunnels and composed of otherwise contiguous thickened septal bases from which numerous thin septal spines may project adaxially; lumina of irregularly rounded outline; tabulae numerous, commonly irregular and incomplete. [Possibly a theciid; no septal counts available.]