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Stringophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Ptenophyllina
    Family:  
Stringophyllidae?
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Stringophyllum WEDEKIND, 1922a, p. 8
    Type Species:  
S. normale, SD WEDEKIND, 1925, p. 64, 44524, 4534, Wedekind Coll., SM, Frankfurt


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Synonyms

Stringophylloides


Geographic Distribution

L.Dev.-M.Dev.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Dev.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Lochkovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
419
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Givetian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
378.9


Description

Solitary coralla, septa consisting of single series of coarse contiguous or discrete monacanthine trabeculae, major septa long and arranged bisymmetrically about counter-cardinal plane, minor septa commonly discontinuous longitudinally, represented by short segments or monacanths based on dissepiments, lonsdaleoid dissepiments may disrupt major septa either sporadically or in more or less continuous wide peripheral zone, tabular floors close, depressed toward counter-cardinal plane, tabulae in some complete, more commonly incomplete




References

Wedekind, Rudolf, 1922a, Zur Kenntnis der Stringophyllen des oberen Mitteldevon: Ges. Beförd Gesamten Naturwiss. Marburg, Sitzungsber. REFERENCES, , pt. 1, p. 1-16, text-fig. 1-18.


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