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Stelliporella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Heliolitida
    Suborder:  
Heliolitina
    Superfamily:  
Helioliticae
    Family:  
Stelliporellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Stelliporella WENTZEL, 1895, p. 503
    Type Species:  
S. lamellata, OD; +not traced


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Fossil Image
Fig. 413,1a-c. *S. lamellata, U.Sil. (low.Ludlov.,mathrm{e}_{2} basal Kopanina Beds), Czech., Kozel, a,c, transv. secs., X7,X35, b, long. sec., X7 (Wentzel, 1895)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu. (Nor.-Swed.), U.Ord. or L.Sil., Asia(Kolyma Basin-Altay-Shoria Mts.), Sil., Eu.(Czech.-Eng.-Nor.-N. Zemlya-Gotl.-Podolia)-Asia(NE. USSR-Tuva)-N. Am. (Tenn.-Alaska)


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

Walls of tabularia longitudinally plicate, septal laminae knit to form a polygonally tubular axial structure, tabulae horizontal, convex or concave, in a ring around the tabularia are 16 to 22 coenenchymal tubules, coenenchymal tubules polygonal, or meandroid in regions of intensive increase, and with horizontal diaphragms [see BONDARENKO, 1971b, p. 168].




References

Wentzel, Josef, 1895, Zur Kenntnis der Zoantharia Tabulata: (K.) Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.naturwiss. Kl, Denkschr., v. 62, p. 479-516, pl. 1-5.


Museum or Author Information

Wentzel, 1895