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Thecostegites
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Auloporida
Superfamily:
Syringoporicae
Family:
Thecostegitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Thecostegites Milne-Edwards & HAIME, 1849b, p. 261
Type Species:
Harmodites bouchardi Michelin, 1846, p. 185, M, †Z153 bis b, MN, Paris, lectotype by LECOMPTE, 1939, p. 171
Images
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Fig. 457,2. *T. bouchardi (MICHELIN), Frasn., Belg., Couvin,
thin sec., X5 (Lecompte, 1939).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Polar Urals); L. Dev. (Gedilln.-up.lsfarian), Asia (Tien Shan)-Australia(Tasm.); M.Dev. or U.Dev., N. Am.(Alaska); M.Dev.-U.Dev., Eu.-Asia; L.Carb. (Tournais.), Asia(Kuzbas)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.(?Pridol.)
Beginning International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
422.73
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.(Gedinn.)
Ending International Stage:
Lochkovian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
412.4
Description
Corallum massive and encrusting, corallites slender, cylindrical, thick-walled, united by successive irregular platformlike expansions of tabulate tissue, each expansion in communication with the tabularia through perforations arranged in verticils in the walls of the corallites; the expansions may be epithecate above and below; septal spinules irregular in development; tabulae in lateral expansions as well as in the cylindrical corallites, irregular, hcrizontal, oblique, concave, or with short axial tubes, which may be extended into the lateral expansions where they lie horizontally, and may be crossed by small tabellae.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Auloporida
Superfamily:
Syringoporicae
Family:
Thecostegitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Thecostegites Milne-Edwards & HAIME, 1849b, p. 261
Type Species:
Harmodites bouchardi Michelin, 1846, p. 185, M, †Z153 bis b, MN, Paris, lectotype by LECOMPTE, 1939, p. 171
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 457,2. *T. bouchardi (MICHELIN), Frasn., Belg., Couvin,
thin sec., X5 (Lecompte, 1939).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.(Polar Urals); L. Dev. (Gedilln.-up.lsfarian), Asia (Tien Shan)-Australia(Tasm.); M.Dev. or U.Dev., N. Am.(Alaska); M.Dev.-U.Dev., Eu.-Asia; L.Carb. (Tournais.), Asia(Kuzbas)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Sil.(?Pridol.)
Beginning International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
422.73
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
L.Dev.(Gedinn.)
Ending International Stage:
Lochkovian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
412.4
Description
Corallum massive and encrusting, corallites slender, cylindrical, thick-walled, united by successive irregular platformlike expansions of tabulate tissue, each expansion in communication with the tabularia through perforations arranged in verticils in the walls of the corallites; the expansions may be epithecate above and below; septal spinules irregular in development; tabulae in lateral expansions as well as in the cylindrical corallites, irregular, hcrizontal, oblique, concave, or with short axial tubes, which may be extended into the lateral expansions where they lie horizontally, and may be crossed by small tabellae.