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Ecclimadictyon
Classification
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Stromatoporoidea
Order:
Clathrodictyida
Family:
Actinodictyidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Ecclimadictyon NESTOR, 1964a, p. 60
Type Species:
Clathrodictyon fastigiatum NICHOLSON, 1887, p. 8, OD, holotype NHM P5773
Images
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Fig. 418, 2a-b. *E. fastigiatum (Nicholson), Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Wenlock, Ironbridge, Shropshire, holotype NHM P5773, longitudinal and tangential sections, x10 (Nestor, 2011).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania), China (Quinghai, Xinjiang, Zhejiang), Estonia, Kazakhstan, Russia (Urals, Altai, Gornaia Shoria), Katian–Hirnantian; Canada (Anticosti, Arctic islands, eastern Quebec), central Asia (Tien Shan), China (Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan), Estonia, Greenland, Iran, Norway, Russia (Arctic islands), United States (Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma), Llandovery; Australia (New South Wales), Canada (eastern Quebec, Ontario), central Asia (Tien Shan), England, Estonia, Norway, Russia (Altai, Arctic islands, Siberian Platform, Urals), Sweden (Gotland), Ukraine (Podolia), United States (Michigan), Wenlock; Canada (eastern Quebec, Ontario), China (Inner Mongolia), Norway, Russia (Arctic islands, Urals), Sweden (Gotland), Ludlow; Russia (Urals), Pridoli; Russia (Pechora Basin, northeastern Siberia, Tuva), Silurian.
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:
Silurian
Ending International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
419
Description
Growth form laminar to domical, laminae crumpled, forming cassiculate network, pillars oblique or indistinct, galleries labyrinthine, subangular in longitudinal section, astrorhizae fasciculate, irregular
References
Nestor, Heldur. 1964a. Stromatoporoidei Ordovika i Llandoveri Estoniii [Ordovician and Llandoverian Stromatoporoidea of Estonia]. Akademiia Nauk Estonskoi SSR, Institut Geologii. Tallinn. 112 p., 38 fig., 32 pl., 5 tables. In Russian with English summary.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Stromatoporoidea
Order:
Clathrodictyida
Family:
Actinodictyidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Ecclimadictyon NESTOR, 1964a, p. 60
Type Species:
Clathrodictyon fastigiatum NICHOLSON, 1887, p. 8, OD, holotype NHM P5773
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 418, 2a-b. *E. fastigiatum (Nicholson), Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Wenlock, Ironbridge, Shropshire, holotype NHM P5773, longitudinal and tangential sections, x10 (Nestor, 2011).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania), China (Quinghai, Xinjiang, Zhejiang), Estonia, Kazakhstan, Russia (Urals, Altai, Gornaia Shoria), Katian–Hirnantian; Canada (Anticosti, Arctic islands, eastern Quebec), central Asia (Tien Shan), China (Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan), Estonia, Greenland, Iran, Norway, Russia (Arctic islands), United States (Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma), Llandovery; Australia (New South Wales), Canada (eastern Quebec, Ontario), central Asia (Tien Shan), England, Estonia, Norway, Russia (Altai, Arctic islands, Siberian Platform, Urals), Sweden (Gotland), Ukraine (Podolia), United States (Michigan), Wenlock; Canada (eastern Quebec, Ontario), China (Inner Mongolia), Norway, Russia (Arctic islands, Urals), Sweden (Gotland), Ludlow; Russia (Urals), Pridoli; Russia (Pechora Basin, northeastern Siberia, Tuva), Silurian.
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:
Silurian
Ending International Stage:
Pridoli
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
419
Description
Growth form laminar to domical, laminae crumpled, forming cassiculate network, pillars oblique or indistinct, galleries labyrinthine, subangular in longitudinal section, astrorhizae fasciculate, irregular
References
Nestor, Heldur. 1964a. Stromatoporoidei Ordovika i Llandoveri Estoniii [Ordovician and Llandoverian Stromatoporoidea of Estonia]. Akademiia Nauk Estonskoi SSR, Institut Geologii. Tallinn. 112 p., 38 fig., 32 pl., 5 tables. In Russian with English summary.