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Sapporipora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Favositidae
Subfamily:
Favositinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Sapporipora Ozaki in Shimizu, Ozaki, & OBATA, 1934, p. 74
Type Species:
*S. favositoides, OD, †not traced
Images
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Fig. 359,2a,b. *S. favositoides, syntypes, pebble in Ken-niho ls. congl., NW. Korea, a, b, transv., long. secs., X4.0 (Shimizu, Ozaki, & Obata, 1934).
Synonyms
Favosites
Geographic Distribution
Asia (Korea), ?M.Sil.(Wenlock.), Asia(Sib.Platf.-Tay-myr-Tarbagatau Ra.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Rhuddanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
443.07
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Ending International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
419
Description
Corallum cerioid, corallites small, prismatic, each wall face with one median longitudinal row of large pores, no septal spines recorded in holotype; new corallites commonly arise at junction of four corallites [see HAMADA, 1960, p. 169].
References
Ozaki, Kinemon, 1934, Description of fossils, A: Corals: in S. Shimizu, K. Ozaki, \& T. Obata, Gotlandian deposits of northwest Korea, Shanghai Sci. Inst., J., sec. 2, v. 1, p. 62-78, pl. 9-18.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Favositicae
Family:
Favositidae
Subfamily:
Favositinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Sapporipora Ozaki in Shimizu, Ozaki, & OBATA, 1934, p. 74
Type Species:
*S. favositoides, OD, †not traced
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 359,2a,b. *S. favositoides, syntypes, pebble in Ken-niho ls. congl., NW. Korea, a, b, transv., long. secs., X4.0 (Shimizu, Ozaki, & Obata, 1934).
Synonyms
Favosites
Geographic Distribution
Asia (Korea), ?M.Sil.(Wenlock.), Asia(Sib.Platf.-Tay-myr-Tarbagatau Ra.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Rhuddanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
443.07
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Ending International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
419
Description
Corallum cerioid, corallites small, prismatic, each wall face with one median longitudinal row of large pores, no septal spines recorded in holotype; new corallites commonly arise at junction of four corallites [see HAMADA, 1960, p. 169].
References
Ozaki, Kinemon, 1934, Description of fossils, A: Corals: in S. Shimizu, K. Ozaki, \& T. Obata, Gotlandian deposits of northwest Korea, Shanghai Sci. Inst., J., sec. 2, v. 1, p. 62-78, pl. 9-18.