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Thamnopora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Pachyporicae
Family:
Pachyporidea
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Thamnopora STEININGER, 1831, p. 10
Type Species:
T. madreporacea, OD, =Alveolites cervicornis de Blainville, 1830, p. 370, lectotype of both species 259a, Goldfuss Coll., IP, Bonn, by Lang & Smith in Hill, 1937b, p. 56, see Lang, Smith, & THOMAS, 1940, p. 133
Images
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Fig. 395,1a-c. *T. cervicornis (de Blainville), lectotype, M.Dev.(Givet.), Ger., Bensberg, a, ext. view, X0.7, b, transv. sec., X2.7, c, part of long. sec., X6.0 (Lecompte, 1936).
Synonyms
Pachypora, ?Dendrofavosites, ?Gertholites
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Lochkovian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
419
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
359.3
Description
Corallum ramose, corallites diverge from longitudinal direction in axis of branch so that except near apex of branch calices open perpendicular to surface, walls thickened, width of stereozone increasing distally, forming rounded calical pits, septal spines sparse, mural pores numerous, tabulae thin.
References
Steininger, Johann, 1831, Bemerkungen über die Versteinerungen, welche in dem UebergangsKalkgebirge der Eifel gefunden werden: p. 1-44, (Trier).
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Favositida
Suborder:
Favositina
Superfamily:
Pachyporicae
Family:
Pachyporidea
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Thamnopora STEININGER, 1831, p. 10
Type Species:
T. madreporacea, OD, =Alveolites cervicornis de Blainville, 1830, p. 370, lectotype of both species 259a, Goldfuss Coll., IP, Bonn, by Lang & Smith in Hill, 1937b, p. 56, see Lang, Smith, & THOMAS, 1940, p. 133
Images
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Fig. 395,1a-c. *T. cervicornis (de Blainville), lectotype, M.Dev.(Givet.), Ger., Bensberg, a, ext. view, X0.7, b, transv. sec., X2.7, c, part of long. sec., X6.0 (Lecompte, 1936).
Synonyms
Pachypora, ?Dendrofavosites, ?Gertholites
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Dev.
Beginning International Stage:
Lochkovian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
419
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
359.3
Description
Corallum ramose, corallites diverge from longitudinal direction in axis of branch so that except near apex of branch calices open perpendicular to surface, walls thickened, width of stereozone increasing distally, forming rounded calical pits, septal spines sparse, mural pores numerous, tabulae thin.
References
Steininger, Johann, 1831, Bemerkungen über die Versteinerungen, welche in dem UebergangsKalkgebirge der Eifel gefunden werden: p. 1-44, (Trier).