Fistulipora M’Coy, 1849
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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/g2015n2a2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4535363 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038D87E1-F754-FFAB-A00B-FB47E6B4F965 |
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Felipe |
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Fistulipora M’Coy, 1849 |
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Genus Fistulipora M’Coy, 1849 View in CoL
TYPE SPECIES. — Fistulipora minor M’Coy, 1849 . Carboniferous ; England.
DIAGNOSIS. — Massive, encrusting or ramose colonies. Cylindrical autozooecia with thin walls and complete diaphragms. Apertures rounded, possessing horseshoe-shaped lunaria. Autozooecia separated by the extrazooidal vesicular skeleton.
COMPARISON. — Fistulipora M’Coy, 1849 differs from Eridopora Ulrich, 1882 in having rounded, horseshoe-shaped lunaria instead of triangular ones. Furthermore, Eridopora develops persistently encrusting colonies, whereas Fistulipora may also develop massive and branched colonies. Fistulipora differs from Dybowskiella Waagen & Wentzel, 1886 in the shape of lunaria, whose ends does not inflect autozooecial chambers.
OCCURRENCE. — Ordovician to Permian; worldwide.
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