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Trypanopora

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Tabulata
    Order:  
Tabulata - Order, superfamily and family uncertain
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Trypanopora Sokolov & Obut in SOKOLOV, 1955, p. 221, nom. subst. pro Spirocystis SOKOLOV & OBUT in SOKOLOV, 1950a, p. 172, nom. nud., non Spirocystis LEGER & DUBOSCQ, 1911, a protozoan
    Type Species:  
T. terebra, OD, †80, coll. 599, VNIGRI, Leningrad


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Fossil Image
Fig. 461,2. T. gabeliensis PEL & LEJEUNE, up.Givet., France, Mont d'Haurs, thin sec., X4.0 (Pel & Lejeune, 1971; photograph courtesy Mme. Carpentier-Lejeune).


Synonyms

Cystitrypanopora


Geographic Distribution

Asia (S.Ferghana) ; M.Dev.( up.Givet.), Eu. (France-?Carnic Alps)-?Australia(New S.Wales)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Dev.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Eifelian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
394.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Givetian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
378.9


Description

associations of gimlet-like, spirally growing ?corallites (possibly solitary) of gradually increasing diameter, walls thin with distinct external sheath; tabulae numerous, like vesicles, oblique to infundibuliform; septal spines not observed. [See PEL & LEJEUNE, 1971, p. 295. May possibly be worms rather than coelenterates.]




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