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Sibiriolites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Heliolitida
    Suborder:  
Heliolitina
    Superfamily:  
Proporicae
    Family:  
Sibiriolitidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Sibiriolites SOKOLOV, 1955, p. 87
    Type Species:  
S. sibericus, OD, †139, coll. 599, VNIGRI, Leningrad


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Fossil Image
Fig. 417,2. *S. sibericus, holotype, Dolbor., USSR, R. Stony Tunguska, sec., X4 (Sokolov, 1962c).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Asia (W.Sib.Platf.-Altay-Taymyr-NE.USSR-China)N.Am.(Ellesmere I.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Sandbian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
458.18
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Ord.
    Ending International Stage:  
Hirnantian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
443.07


Description

Sibiriolitidae with coenenchyme between tabularia predominantly in single series and with zonal or peripheral thickening by development of thick, close longitudinal trabeculae. [Placed by SOKOLOV, 1955, p. 87, in Proheliolitidae; see also NORFORD, 1971, p. 5; BONDARENKO, 1977, p. 44.]




References



Museum or Author Information

Sokolov, 1962