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Rotalites
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Heliolitida
Suborder:
Heliolitina
Superfamily:
Proporicae
Family:
Proporidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Rotalites LELESHUS, 1974c, p. 97
Type Species:
Propora nuratensis Chekhovich in Kovalevskiy, Chernova, & CHEKHOVICH, 1960, p. 217, OD, †508/18, MGU, Tashkent
Images
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Fig. 419,la,b. *R. nuralensis, Merishkor beds, S. Tian Shan, Mt. Merishkor, Nuratin Ra.; a,b, transv., long. sees., X4.5 (Hill, n; photographs courtesy V. L. Leleshus, sample 215·216, Leleshus ColI., IG, Dushanbe).
Synonyms
Rotalites
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Tadzhik.-Kuzbas)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
Beginning International Stage:
Gorstian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
426.74
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
Ending International Stage:
Ludfordian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
422.73
Description
Corallum small, hemispherical or nodulose; sections of tabularia like gear wheel with 12 cogs; walls of tabularia somewhat thickened, uneven, with longirudinal folds and commonly continuous; septal spines sparse to ?absent; tabulae complete, horizontal or slightly concave, in places incomplete, with tabellae; coenenchyme of dissepiments.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Heliolitida
Suborder:
Heliolitina
Superfamily:
Proporicae
Family:
Proporidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Rotalites LELESHUS, 1974c, p. 97
Type Species:
Propora nuratensis Chekhovich in Kovalevskiy, Chernova, & CHEKHOVICH, 1960, p. 217, OD, †508/18, MGU, Tashkent
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 419,la,b. *R. nuralensis, Merishkor beds, S. Tian Shan, Mt. Merishkor, Nuratin Ra.; a,b, transv., long. sees., X4.5 (Hill, n; photographs courtesy V. L. Leleshus, sample 215·216, Leleshus ColI., IG, Dushanbe).
Synonyms
Rotalites
Geographic Distribution
Asia(Tadzhik.-Kuzbas)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
Beginning International Stage:
Gorstian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
426.74
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.(Ludlov.)
Ending International Stage:
Ludfordian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
422.73
Description
Corallum small, hemispherical or nodulose; sections of tabularia like gear wheel with 12 cogs; walls of tabularia somewhat thickened, uneven, with longirudinal folds and commonly continuous; septal spines sparse to ?absent; tabulae complete, horizontal or slightly concave, in places incomplete, with tabellae; coenenchyme of dissepiments.