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Burgundia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Porifera
    Class:  
Demospongiae
    Order:  
Uncertain
    Superfamily:  
Unknown
    Family:  
Burgundiidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Burgundia DEHORNE, 1916, p. 430
    Type Species:  
B. trinorchii Dehorne, 1916, p. 431; OD; holotype, Geological Laboratory Sorbonne, fig. 1, collection of Munier- Chalmas; =Circoporella semiclathrata Hayasaka, 1917, p. 58; =Plassenia alpine Yabe & Sugiyama, 1931a, p. 113; =Burgundia semiclathrata Hayasaka, 1917, p. 56; Steiner, 1932, p. 184; =Burgundia cf. semiclathrata Hayasaka, 1917, p. 56; KellaWay & Smith, 1938, pl. 21,5; =Circoporella semiclathrata Hayasaka, 1917, p. 56; Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941a, p. 39; =Burgundia barremensis Yavorsky, 1957, p. 27; ?=Burgundia alpina Yabe & Sugiyama, 1931a, p. 113; Fenninger & Hotzl, 1965, p. 39]


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Fig. 185a–b. *B. trinorchii, light photomicrograph, Portlandian, Villereouse, France; a, longitudinal section, NHM no. 4044, X15; b, transverse section, NHM no. 3594, X20 (West & others, 2013). —Fig. 185c–d. B. ramosa Pfender, light photomicrograph, upper Oxfordian, Wadi Leeben, Sharwain Range, Qishn, Yemen; c, transverse section, NHM no. H 4615 a, X15; d, upper Hauterivian, Cretaceous, La Mounine, Marseille, France; longitudinal section, NHM no. H 5486, X30 (West & others, 2013). —Fig. 185e–f. B. wetzeli (hudson), light photomicrograph, Hauterivian, Bekhme Gorge, Iraq; e, transverse section, NHM no. 4428 b, part of holotype, X3; f, longitudinal section, NHM no. 4431, X3 (West & others, 2013).


Synonyms

Stromatoporidium, Circoporella, Plassenia, Bekhmeia


Geographic Distribution

France, Spain, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, China, Russia, Japan


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Jurassic
    Beginning International Stage:  
Oxfordian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
161.53
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cretaceous
    Ending International Stage:  
Albian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
100.5


Description

Burgundiid with ability to produce tabulae. Microstructure ranging from orthogonal to fascicular fibrous. Massive, nodular or dendroid gross morphology. Aquiferous units may possess tabulate oscula and/or astrorhizae (see Wood, 1987). Type species is massive or nodular with vertical elements of 40–70 μm diameter; holotype from Portlandian, Upper Jurassic, Saone et Loire, Vers, France; type species distributed through upper Oxfordian–Hauterivian, France, Spain, Russia, and Japan. Another species, B. ramosa PfendeR, 1937, p. 133, has a coarse reticulum or normally short-branched vertical elements (pillars) of 50–90 μm diameter but no axial reticulum; synonyms are as follows: =Burgundia ramosa PfendeR, 1937, p. 133; =Burgundia campanae PfendeR, 1937, p. 135; =Burgundia steinerae Hudson, 1955c, p. 228; Fenninger, Flügel, & Hötzl, 1963, p. 235; =Burgundia steinerae Hudson, 1955c, p. 228; FenningeR & Hötzl, 1965, p. 40; =Burgundia mammelonata FenningeR & Hötzl, 1965, p. 40; =Burgundia semiclathrata (Hayasaka, 1917, p. 57); Turnšek & Masse, 1973, p. 237; =Burgundia massiliensis Turnšek & Masse, 1973, p. 237; =Burgundia steinerae Hudson, 1955c, p. 228; Dong & Wang, 1983, p. 417; this species extends from upper Oxfordian–Hauterivian, France, Spain, Syria, Iraq, and China. A third species, B. wetzeli (hudson, 1954b, p. 49), is a nodular or dendroid Burgundia with an axial nonlaminate reticulum formed of tubules, and an outer laminate reticulum with simple unbranched pillars limited to one inter- laminar space; and stacked astrorhizal systems with tabulate oscula; synonyms are as follows: =Bekmeia wetzeli hudson, 1954b, p. 49; =Burgundia wetzeli hudson, 1954b, p. 48; =Burgundia wetzeli Turnšek & Masse, 1973, p. 223; it occurs in the Hauterivian, France, Spain, and Iraq.




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