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Clathrodictyon
Classification
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Stromatoporoidea
Order:
Clathrodictyida
Superfamily:
Unknown
Family:
Clathrodictyidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Clathrodictyon Nicholson & MURIE, 1878, p. 220
Type Species:
C. vesiculosum, OD; holotype NHM P5495
Images
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Fig. 416, 1a-b. *C. vesiculosum, Clinton, Llandovery, Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States, holotype NHM P5495, longitudinal and tangential sections, X10 (Nestor, 2011).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania), Canada (Anticosti), China (Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Zhejiang), Estonia, Norway, Katian-Hirnantian; Canada (Anticosti, Arctic islands, Hudson Bay, eastern Quebec), central Asia (Tien Shan), China (Quizhou), Estonia, Greenland, Norway, Russia (Altai, Arctic islands, Siberian Platform, Tuva, western Urals), Ukraine (Podolia), United States (Missouri, Ohio), Llandovery; Canada (Arctic islands, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Ontario, eastern Quebec), central Asia (Tien Shan), England, Estonia, Greenland, Norway, Russia (Altai, Pechora Basin, northeastern Siberia, Siberian Platform, Tuva), Sweden (Gotland), United States (Kentucky), Wenlock; Australia (New South Wales), Canada (Ontario), central Asia (Tien Shan), Estonia, Iran, Russia (Altai, Arctic islands, Pechora Basin, Siberian Platform, western Urals), Sweden (Gotland), Ukraine (Podolia), Ludlow; Canada (Arctic islands), Emsian; China (Yunnan), England, Russia (Urals, northeastern Siberia), United States (Ohio), Middle Devonian
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Ordovician (Katian)
Beginning International Stage:
Katian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
452.75
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Middle Devonian
Ending International Stage:
Givetian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
378.9
Description
Growth form domical to laminar, laminae irregularly wrinkled, pillars short, in many cases oblique or funnel shaped, rodlike at base, galleries lenticular or irregular in longitudinal section, astrorhizae common
References
Nicholson, H. A., & J. Murie. 1878. On the minute structure of Stromatopora and its allies. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 14:187-246, 5 fig., pl. 1-4.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Stromatoporoidea
Order:
Clathrodictyida
Superfamily:
Unknown
Family:
Clathrodictyidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Clathrodictyon Nicholson & MURIE, 1878, p. 220
Type Species:
C. vesiculosum, OD; holotype NHM P5495
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 416, 1a-b. *C. vesiculosum, Clinton, Llandovery, Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States, holotype NHM P5495, longitudinal and tangential sections, X10 (Nestor, 2011).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania), Canada (Anticosti), China (Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Zhejiang), Estonia, Norway, Katian-Hirnantian; Canada (Anticosti, Arctic islands, Hudson Bay, eastern Quebec), central Asia (Tien Shan), China (Quizhou), Estonia, Greenland, Norway, Russia (Altai, Arctic islands, Siberian Platform, Tuva, western Urals), Ukraine (Podolia), United States (Missouri, Ohio), Llandovery; Canada (Arctic islands, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Ontario, eastern Quebec), central Asia (Tien Shan), England, Estonia, Greenland, Norway, Russia (Altai, Pechora Basin, northeastern Siberia, Siberian Platform, Tuva), Sweden (Gotland), United States (Kentucky), Wenlock; Australia (New South Wales), Canada (Ontario), central Asia (Tien Shan), Estonia, Iran, Russia (Altai, Arctic islands, Pechora Basin, Siberian Platform, western Urals), Sweden (Gotland), Ukraine (Podolia), Ludlow; Canada (Arctic islands), Emsian; China (Yunnan), England, Russia (Urals, northeastern Siberia), United States (Ohio), Middle Devonian
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Ordovician (Katian)
Beginning International Stage:
Katian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
452.75
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Middle Devonian
Ending International Stage:
Givetian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
378.9
Description
Growth form domical to laminar, laminae irregularly wrinkled, pillars short, in many cases oblique or funnel shaped, rodlike at base, galleries lenticular or irregular in longitudinal section, astrorhizae common
References
Nicholson, H. A., & J. Murie. 1878. On the minute structure of Stromatopora and its allies. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 14:187-246, 5 fig., pl. 1-4.