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Solenodendron

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Lithostrotionina
    Family:  
Lithostrotionidae
    Subfamily:  
Aulininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Solenodendron SANDO, 1976, p. 426
    Type Species:  
Aulina horsfieldi Smith & YÜ, 1943, p. 49, OD, †R34238, BM(NH}, London


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Fig. 253,1a,b. *S. horsfieldi (Smith& Yü), paratypes, L.Carb.(up. Tournais.),mathrm{C}_{1}, Hawbank Ls., U.K., near Bell Busk, Yorkshire, a, b, transv., long. secs., X2 (Smith& Yü, 1943).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu. (Brit. I.-France-Urals)-Asia (China-?Laos)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.(up. Tournais.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tournaisian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
66
    Beginning Date:  
351
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb.(up. Visean)
    Ending International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
330.34


Description

Fasciculate aulate corals in which aulos is formed by union of deflected axial ends of major septa, major and minor septa carinate, carinae zigzag, tabular floors flat and horizontal in aulos, declined abaxially between aulos and regular, concentric dissepimentarium, increase marginarial in some, tabularial in others




References



Museum or Author Information

Smith & Yü, 1943