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Squameofavosites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Favositida
    Suborder:  
Favositina
    Superfamily:  
Favositicae
    Family:  
Favositidae
    Subfamily:  
Emmonsiinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Squameofavosites CHERNYSHEV, 1941a, p. 24
    Type Species:  
Favosites hemisphericus var. bohemica Počta, 1902, renamed Squameofavosites cechicus GALLE, 1978, p. 47; OD; t47 (PV6,7 in PaCTA Coll.), NM, Prague; lectotype by DUBATOLOV & SMIRNOVA, 1964, p. 44; non Favosites bohemicus PaCTA, 1902, p. 241, nec F. bohemicus MAURER, 1896, p. 632; see GALLE, 1978, p. 49


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Fossil Image
Fig. 367,la,b. *S. bohemietts (POCTA), lectotype, Prag., Czech., Koneprusy; a,b, transv., long. secs., X4 (HiII, n; photographs courtesy W. A. Oliver).


Synonyms

Mesosolenia


Geographic Distribution

Eu. (Czech.-Podolia-Urals) -Asia (Salair-SW.Kuzbas- Altay-NE. USSR Taymyr-Viet Nam)-Australia (Tasm.-Vict.-New S.Wales-Queensl.)-N.Z.-N.Am.- N.Afr.(Moroc.)


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:  
low.M.Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Givetian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
378.9


Description

Corallum favositoid, walls of corallites somewhat thickened, squamulae more common than spines and commonly paired in neighboring coralIites and developed as linguiform projections mainly from upper rims of pores and thinning toward axial ends; mural pores in one to four longitudinal rows on each wall-face, commonly large; tabulae mostly complete, but some suspended from squamulae, which they outnumber [see also KRAICZ, 1937, p. 53, and GALLE, 1978, p. 49].




References



Museum or Author Information

Cocke & Bowsher, 1968