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Waagenophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Lonsdaleiina
    Family:  
Waagenophyllidae
    Subfamily:  
Waagenophyllinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Waagenophyllum HAYASAKA, 1924, p. 23, nom. subst. pro Waagellella YABE & HAYASAKA, 1915, p. 96, non Waagenella DE KONINCK, 1883, a Carboniferous gastropod
    Type Species:  
Lonsdaleia indica WAAGEN & WENTZEL, 1886, p. 897; SD GRABAU, 1931, p. 42; -1-3909-3911, GS1, Calcutta; lectotype by HUDSON, 1958, p. 179


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Synonyms

Warganella


Geographic Distribution

Asia (Pak.-Iran -Nakhichev.-Iraq -India -Burma-Camb.-Laos-Viet Nam-Inner Mongolia-China-Japan) -Eu.(Yugo.) -N.Z.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Perm.(Pseudofusulina Z.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U. Perm.(Yabeina Z.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Fasciculate, corallites slender, with lateral increase; axial column irregularly cylindrical, consisting of median lamella and a few septal lamellae biradially or irregularly disposed, and of steeply inclined axial tabellae whose proximal edges rest on the next below; major and minor septa not or rarely disrupted by lonsdaleoid dissepiments; no tertiary or fourth order septa; dissepimentarium normal, concentric, of small globose and elongate interseptal plates; a narrow peripheral stereozone may be present; tabulae annular in narrow adaxial part, segmented into steep clinotabellae in wider peripheral parts.




References

Hayasaka, Ichiro, 1924, On the fauna of the antracolithic limestone of Omi-mura in the western part of Echigo: Tohoku Imp. Univ., Sci. Rep., ser. 2 (geol.), v. 8, pt. 1, p. 1-83, pl. 1-7.


Museum or Author Information

Waagen & Wentzel, 1886, Huang, 1932