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Utaratuia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Columnariina
    Family:  
Disphyllidae
    Subfamily:  
Spongonariinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Utaratuia CRICKMAY, 1960, p. 5
    Type Species:  
U. laevigata OD; +27026, PRl, Ithaca


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Fig. 179,1a-c. ·V. laevigata, holotype, Givet., Hume F., Can., Rainbow Arch, Carcajou R., NW. Terr.; a,b, transv., tang. secs., X2, c, part of wall in b, showing, between major septal ridges, scarcely projecting minor septal ridges continuous with longitudinal dark lines in wall, X10 (Jell & Hill, 1970b).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

N.Am.(NW.Terr.-Nev.)-Asia(Kweichow); V.Dev., Eu.(USSR)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Dev.(Givet.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Givetian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
385.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Dev.(Givet.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Givetian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
378.9


Description

Cerioid, septa represented only by peripheral ridges so that corallites have thick, serrated common walls with rare, porelike spaces; alternate ridges (minor septa) are barely perceptible except as longitudinal dark lines in tangential sections of wall; dissepiments arranged in irregular longitudinal series; peripheral series of tabellae declined adaxially, and axial series horizontal or shallowly curved [see JELL & HILL, 1970b, p. 834; see also OLIVER & SANDO, 1977, p. 422].




References

Crickmay, C. H., 1960, The older Devonian faunas of the Northwest Territories: 21 p., 11 pl., Evelyn de Mille Books (Calgary).


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