Heliolites Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | † Tabulata |
Order: | † Heliolitida |
Family: | † Heliolitidae |
Genus: | †
Heliolites Dana, 1846 |
Heliolites is a large and heterogenous [1] genus of extinct tabulate corals in the family Heliolitidae. [2] Specimens have been found in Ordovician [3] to Devonian [4] beds in North America, [5] Europe, [4] Africa, [6] Asia, [7] and Australia. [3] The genus is particularly abundant in the Wellin Member of the Hanonet Formation of Belgium. [8]
Members of the genus are distinguished by a prominent tubular coenenchyme (the tissue linking neighboring polyps) with 14–17 tubules around each corallite (the stony cup in which each polyp sits.) [9]
Heliolites Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | † Tabulata |
Order: | † Heliolitida |
Family: | † Heliolitidae |
Genus: | †
Heliolites Dana, 1846 |
Heliolites is a large and heterogenous [1] genus of extinct tabulate corals in the family Heliolitidae. [2] Specimens have been found in Ordovician [3] to Devonian [4] beds in North America, [5] Europe, [4] Africa, [6] Asia, [7] and Australia. [3] The genus is particularly abundant in the Wellin Member of the Hanonet Formation of Belgium. [8]
Members of the genus are distinguished by a prominent tubular coenenchyme (the tissue linking neighboring polyps) with 14–17 tubules around each corallite (the stony cup in which each polyp sits.) [9]