Zaphriphyllum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hexacorallia |
Subclass: | † Rugosa |
Order: | † Stauriida |
Family: | † Ekvasophyllidae |
Genus: | †
Zaphriphyllum Sutherland 1954 [1] |
Species | |
See text |
Zaphriphyllum is an extinct genus of horn coral belonging to the suborder Stariidae and family Ekvasophyllidae. [2] Specimens have been found in Mississippian beds in North America [3] and Turkey. [4] It is the characteristic coral of the Kelly Limestone of New Mexico, US. [3]
Sutherland first described it in 1954 from a rock containing a fauna of the Middle Mississippian age in the Northern territory of Canada. [3] Sutherland proposed the genus Zaphriphyllum for those zaphrentids which still possess a trochoid shape and pronounced cardinal fossula and consistently have dissepiments. These forms usually also show a tendency toward a radial arrangement of the septa in the immediate area of the cardinal fossula. Zaphriphyllum closely resembles Amplexizaphrentis Vaughan; except that, as Sutherland (personal communication) has pointed out, the latter is characterized by the absence, or very sparse and discontinuous development, of dissepiments.[ citation needed]
Zaphriphyllum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hexacorallia |
Subclass: | † Rugosa |
Order: | † Stauriida |
Family: | † Ekvasophyllidae |
Genus: | †
Zaphriphyllum Sutherland 1954 [1] |
Species | |
See text |
Zaphriphyllum is an extinct genus of horn coral belonging to the suborder Stariidae and family Ekvasophyllidae. [2] Specimens have been found in Mississippian beds in North America [3] and Turkey. [4] It is the characteristic coral of the Kelly Limestone of New Mexico, US. [3]
Sutherland first described it in 1954 from a rock containing a fauna of the Middle Mississippian age in the Northern territory of Canada. [3] Sutherland proposed the genus Zaphriphyllum for those zaphrentids which still possess a trochoid shape and pronounced cardinal fossula and consistently have dissepiments. These forms usually also show a tendency toward a radial arrangement of the septa in the immediate area of the cardinal fossula. Zaphriphyllum closely resembles Amplexizaphrentis Vaughan; except that, as Sutherland (personal communication) has pointed out, the latter is characterized by the absence, or very sparse and discontinuous development, of dissepiments.[ citation needed]