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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


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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.]




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