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Wentzelella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Lonsdaleiina
    Family:  
Waagenophyllidae
    Subfamily:  
Wentzelellinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Wentzelella Grabau in HUANG, 1932, p. 46
    Type Species:  
Lonsdaleia salinaria Waagen & WENTZEL, 1886, p. 895, OD, figured syntype, 3902, 3904-3906, GSI, Calcutta


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Synonyms

Wentzelella


Geographic Distribution

Asia (Pak.-Iran-Nakhichev.-Karakorum-Camb.-China-Japan-NE.USSR)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Cerioid, with tertiary, and rarely with quaternary septa, septal bases may be thickened to contiguity, axial column of median plate, septal lamellae and axial tabellae drawn up to median plate, width of transversely tabulate and clinotabulate zones varying with length of minor septa and distance of ends of major septa from column, lonsdaleoid dissepiments absent or present.




References



Museum or Author Information

Waagen & Wentzel, 1886