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Stromatoporella
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Hydrozoa
Order:
Stromatoporoidea
Family:
Stromatoporellidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Stromatoporella NICHOLSON, 1886
Type Species:
Stromatopora granulata NICH., 1873
Images
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Fig. 105, 6. *S. granulata (Nich.), M.Dev.(Couvin.), Belg., 6a,b, long. and tang. secs., X12 (49), also Fig. 102,4. [Other species, Figs. 87, 90, 95,2.]
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Rhuddanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
443.07
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Carb.
Ending International Stage:
Gzhelian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
298.89
Description
Generally laminar, free, with basal epitheca, or encrusting, skeletal elements fairly well individualized and nearly equal in importance, pillars typically limited to interlamellar spaces, with tendency to superposition in some, vertical tabulated chambers few and short. Astrorhizal systems well developed, commonly associated with mamelons. Skeletal elementscelluar (20). [None of the Mesozoic forms described under this name seemingly belong to the genus]
References
Nicholson, H. A., 1886-92, A monograph of the British stromatoporoids: Palaeontograph. Soc. Mon. (London), $234 \mathrm{p} ., 29 \mathrm{pl}$.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Hydrozoa
Order:
Stromatoporoidea
Family:
Stromatoporellidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Stromatoporella NICHOLSON, 1886
Type Species:
Stromatopora granulata NICH., 1873
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 105, 6. *S. granulata (Nich.), M.Dev.(Couvin.), Belg., 6a,b, long. and tang. secs., X12 (49), also Fig. 102,4. [Other species, Figs. 87, 90, 95,2.]
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Sil.
Beginning International Stage:
Rhuddanian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
443.07
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Carb.
Ending International Stage:
Gzhelian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
298.89
Description
Generally laminar, free, with basal epitheca, or encrusting, skeletal elements fairly well individualized and nearly equal in importance, pillars typically limited to interlamellar spaces, with tendency to superposition in some, vertical tabulated chambers few and short. Astrorhizal systems well developed, commonly associated with mamelons. Skeletal elementscelluar (20). [None of the Mesozoic forms described under this name seemingly belong to the genus]
References
Nicholson, H. A., 1886-92, A monograph of the British stromatoporoids: Palaeontograph. Soc. Mon. (London), $234 \mathrm{p} ., 29 \mathrm{pl}$.