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Tetraporinus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Auloporida
    Superfamily:  
Syringoporicae
    Family:  
Tetraporellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Tetraporinus SOKOLOV, 1947c, p. 24
    Type Species:  
T. singularis; +131b, Coli. A. I. GUSEVA, location not traced


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Fig. 450,1a,b. *T. singularis, L.Carb., Taymyr, R. Kharulakh-bigay, a, b, transv., long. secs., X4 (Sokolov, 1955)"


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

U.Sil., Eu.(N.Urals-Vaygach I.)-Asia(Tien Shan), L.Carb., Asia(Taymyr-N.Zemlya-N.Viet Nam-Laos-China)-Eu.(Donbas), L.Perm.(Chihs.), Asia(China-Anatolia)


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:  
U.Sil.
    Ending International Stage:  
Pridoli
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
419


Description

Corallum with radiating to parallel subcylindrical to prismatic corallites, slender and four-sided, connected by four mutually perpendicular rows of tubuli, tabulae numerous, commonly incomplete and obliquely inclined to the axis or, rarely, infundibuliform, septal spines weakly developed to absent




References



Museum or Author Information

T, Sokolov, 1955