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Novitella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Porifera
    Class:  
Stromatoporoidea
    Order:  
Amphiporida
    Family:  
Amphiporidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Novitella Bogoyavlenskaya in Bogoyavlenskaya & DAN'SHINA, 1984, p. 22
    Type Species:  
Paramphipora tchussovensis YAVORSKY, 1955, p. 159, OD, holotype, CNIGR 7351/136


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Fig. 480a-b. *N. tchussovensis (YOVORSKY), CNIGR 7351/136, Askynian horizon, Chusovaya River, western slope of Urals, transverse and axial to oblique transverse sections, X10 (Yavorsky, 1955).


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Geographic Distribution

Russia (Tsaritsin, now Volgograd region, eastern and western Urals)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Devonian (Frasnian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Frasnian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
378.9
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Devonian (Frasnian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Frasnian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
371.1


Description

Similar to Amphipora but with prominent, gently arched laminae in axial sections




References

Bogoyavlenskaya, O. V., & N. V. Dan'shina. 1984. Novye devonskiye subtsilindricheskiye stromatoporaty [New Devonian subcyclindrical stromatoporates]. Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal 1984 (2):15-25.


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