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Trachypora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Tabulata - Order, superfamily and family uncertain
Suborder:
Tabulata - Nomina nuda
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Trachypora Milne-Edwards & HAIME, 1851, p. 158, 305
Type Species:
T. davidsoni; M; +missing; U.Dev.
(Frasn.), Ferques, near Boulogne, France
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Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Age Range
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Description
Lecompte (1939, p. 147), deduced that the type specimen was an association between an encrusting stromatoporoid and a branching tabulate coral, he compared it with a specimen he figured (1939, pl. 19, fig. 8, 9) as Trachypora circulipora Kayser, which is such an association between a stromatoporoid and Thamnopora or possibly an auloporoid. The family Trachyporidae WAAGEN & WENTZEL, 1886 (p. 843, as Trachyporinae) is thus insecurely founded.
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Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Tabulata
Order:
Tabulata - Order, superfamily and family uncertain
Suborder:
Tabulata - Nomina nuda
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Trachypora Milne-Edwards & HAIME, 1851, p. 158, 305
Type Species:
T. davidsoni; M; +missing; U.Dev.
(Frasn.), Ferques, near Boulogne, France
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Not provided
Beginning International Stage:
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
Beginning Date:
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Not provided
Ending International Stage:
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
Ending Date:
Description
Lecompte (1939, p. 147), deduced that the type specimen was an association between an encrusting stromatoporoid and a branching tabulate coral, he compared it with a specimen he figured (1939, pl. 19, fig. 8, 9) as Trachypora circulipora Kayser, which is such an association between a stromatoporoid and Thamnopora or possibly an auloporoid. The family Trachyporidae WAAGEN & WENTZEL, 1886 (p. 843, as Trachyporinae) is thus insecurely founded.