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Ordinatus
Classification
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Porifera - Class, Order and Family Uncertain
Subclass:
Hexasterophora
Order:
Hexactinosa
Family:
Euretidae
Subfamily:
Euretinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Ordinatus de LAUBENFELS, 1955, p. 83, nom. nov. pro Eutactus Schrammen, 1937, p. 38, non Gemminger & Harold, 1873
Type Species:
Scyphia texturata GOLDFUSS, 1826, p. 6, OD
Images
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Fig. 307, 4. *O. texturatus (Goldfuss), Kimmeridgian marls, Upper Jurassic, Erkenbrectsweiler, side view of fragment with cylindrical form and distribution of ostia, X1 (Pisera, 1997, courtesy Palaeontologica Polonica).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Germany
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Jurassic
Beginning International Stage:
Hettangian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
201.36
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Jurassic
Ending International Stage:
Tithonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
143.1
Description
Cylindrical to narrow, vaselike with sides full of pores, dermal surface with only slightly thickened, dictyonal skeleton, interior dictyonal skeleton regular with rectangular to square meshes, dictyonal strands diverging toward dermal surface.
References
de Laubenfels, M. W. 1955. Porifera. In R. C. Moore, ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part E, Archaeocyatha and Porifera. Geological Society of America \& The University of Kansas Press. New York \& Lawrence. p. 21112, fig. 14-89.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Porifera - Class, Order and Family Uncertain
Subclass:
Hexasterophora
Order:
Hexactinosa
Family:
Euretidae
Subfamily:
Euretinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Ordinatus de LAUBENFELS, 1955, p. 83, nom. nov. pro Eutactus Schrammen, 1937, p. 38, non Gemminger & Harold, 1873
Type Species:
Scyphia texturata GOLDFUSS, 1826, p. 6, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 307, 4. *O. texturatus (Goldfuss), Kimmeridgian marls, Upper Jurassic, Erkenbrectsweiler, side view of fragment with cylindrical form and distribution of ostia, X1 (Pisera, 1997, courtesy Palaeontologica Polonica).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Germany
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Jurassic
Beginning International Stage:
Hettangian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
201.36
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Jurassic
Ending International Stage:
Tithonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
143.1
Description
Cylindrical to narrow, vaselike with sides full of pores, dermal surface with only slightly thickened, dictyonal skeleton, interior dictyonal skeleton regular with rectangular to square meshes, dictyonal strands diverging toward dermal surface.
References
de Laubenfels, M. W. 1955. Porifera. In R. C. Moore, ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part E, Archaeocyatha and Porifera. Geological Society of America \& The University of Kansas Press. New York \& Lawrence. p. 21112, fig. 14-89.