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Parauvanella
Classification
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Demospongea
Order:
Vaceletida
Superfamily:
Pileolitoidea
Family:
Colospongiidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Parauvanella Senowbari-Daryan & Di STEFANO, 1988, p. 18
Type Species:
*P. paronai, OD
Images
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Fig. 468, 2. *P. paronai, Lercara Formation, Cisuralian, Lercara, Sicily, holotype, longitudinal section of superposed, hemispherical chambers, with sponge overgrowing an inozoan, MGUP S/5/207, X3 (Senowbari-Daryan & Di Stefano, 1988, courtesy of Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Italy (Sicily), Tunisia, Oman, USA (Texas), China, Permian, Austria, Iran, Russian Far East, Triassic
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Permian
Beginning International Stage:
Asselian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
298.89
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Triassic
Ending International Stage:
Rhaetian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
201.36
Description
Encrusting masses of superposed, spheroidal to hemispheroidal chambers communicating by closely spaced, circular pores, no internal structures in chambers. [Differs from Uvanella OTT, 1967a, in absence of vesicles and more regular, spheroidal form of chambers.]
References
Senowbari-Daryan, B., \& Pietro Di Stefano. 1988. Microfacies and sphinctozoan assemblage of some Lower Permian breccias from the Lercara Formation (Sicily). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 94:3-34, 8 pl.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Demospongea
Order:
Vaceletida
Superfamily:
Pileolitoidea
Family:
Colospongiidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Parauvanella Senowbari-Daryan & Di STEFANO, 1988, p. 18
Type Species:
*P. paronai, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 468, 2. *P. paronai, Lercara Formation, Cisuralian, Lercara, Sicily, holotype, longitudinal section of superposed, hemispherical chambers, with sponge overgrowing an inozoan, MGUP S/5/207, X3 (Senowbari-Daryan & Di Stefano, 1988, courtesy of Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Italy (Sicily), Tunisia, Oman, USA (Texas), China, Permian, Austria, Iran, Russian Far East, Triassic
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Permian
Beginning International Stage:
Asselian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
298.89
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Triassic
Ending International Stage:
Rhaetian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
201.36
Description
Encrusting masses of superposed, spheroidal to hemispheroidal chambers communicating by closely spaced, circular pores, no internal structures in chambers. [Differs from Uvanella OTT, 1967a, in absence of vesicles and more regular, spheroidal form of chambers.]
References
Senowbari-Daryan, B., \& Pietro Di Stefano. 1988. Microfacies and sphinctozoan assemblage of some Lower Permian breccias from the Lercara Formation (Sicily). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 94:3-34, 8 pl.