Potyphyllum , a new phillipsastreid genus of rugose corals in the Upper Frasnian of Belgium with precisions about the age of the Petit-Mont Member
The new genus Potyphyllum is erected with Cyathophyllum ananas Goldfuss, 1826 as type species, for which a neotype is selected here from the north side of the Namur Basin. It is a massive pseudocerioid rugose coral like Frechastraea Scrutton, 1968 with rather large corallites, spindle-shaped dilated septa as well as some horseshoe and inner dissepiments. In the Belgian Upper Frasnian, Potyphyllum ananas and P. veserense (Coen-Aubert, 1974) occur mainly in the Upper Palmatolepis rhenana conodont Zone. The latter two coral taxa, together with diverse species of Frechastraea and Phillipsastrea D’... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Schlagwörter: | Rugosa |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26605591 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/302272.pdf |