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Hammatostroma

Classification

    Phylum:  
Porifera
    Class:  
Stromatoporoidea
    Order:  
Clathrodictyida
    Family:  
Tienodictyidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Hammatostroma STEARN, 1961, p. 939
    Type Species:  
H. albertense Stearn, 1961, p. 940, OD, holotype GSC 15318


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Fig. 421, 2a-b. *H. albertense, Cairn Formation, Frasnian, Isaac Creek, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, holotype GSC 15318, longitudinal and tangential sections, X10 (Nestor, 2011, courtesy of T. E. Bolton).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Austria (Carnic Alps), Lower Devonian; China (Guangxi), Givetian; Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (Guangxi), Czech Republic (Moravia), Poland, Russia (Arctic islands, Timan, Urals), United States (Iowa), Frasnian


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Devonian
    Beginning International Stage:  
Lochkovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
419
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Devonian (Frasnian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Frasnian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
371.1


Description

Growth form domical to laminar, laminae planar or irregularly wavy, transversely fibrous, interlaminar spaces occupied by tangled, irregular structure, forming discontinuous, crumpled additional laminae in the middle part, galleries irregular, astrorhizae inconspicuous




References

Stearn, C. W. 1961. Devonian stromatoporoids of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Journal of Paleontology 35:932-948, 3 fig., pl. 105-107.


Museum or Author Information

GSC, T, Nestor, 2011