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Yohophyllum

Classification

    Phylum:  
Cnidaria
    Class:  
Anthozoa
    Subclass:  
Rugosa
    Order:  
Stauriida
    Suborder:  
Calostylina
    Superfamily:  
Calostylicae
    Family:  
Calostylidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Yohophyllum LIN, 1965, p. 68
    Type Species:  
Streptelasma kueiyangense YON, 1959, p. 404, OD, †not traced, M.Ord., Kueiyang, Kweichow


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Fig. 107,3a-e. *Y. kueiyangense (Yoн), a,b, M.Ord., Kueidon distr., Szechwan, transv., long. secs., X4 (Lin, 1965), c-e, ?type material, M.Ord., Kueiyang, c, lat. and calical ext. views, d,e, transv., oblique secs., X2 (Yü et al., 1963).


Synonyms

Yokophyllum


Geographic Distribution

Asia (Kweichow-Szechwa)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Dapingian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
471.26
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Ord.
    Ending International Stage:  
Darriwilian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
458.18


Description

Fasciculate, corallites with deep infundibuliform calices, septa thick, ?perforate, major septa irregularly contiguous with minor septa in perforate peripheral stereozone, major septa with septal lobes forming loose axial structure, thin tabulae declined from axis in axial structure, of irregular inclination periaxially, ?without dissepiments. [WEYER, 1973a, p. 28, considers septal structure inconsistent with that of Calostylidae.]




References



Museum or Author Information

Lin, 1965, Yü et al., 1963