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Ramifer

Classification

    Phylum:  
Porifera
    Class:  
Cribricyathia
    Order:  
Vologdinophyllida
    Superfamily:  
Vologdinophylloidea
    Family:  
Leibaellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Ramifer JANKAUSKAS, 1969, p. 136
    Type Species:  
R. giratus, OD; holotype, JanKAusKAs, 1965, fig. 1(1), JanKAusKAs, 1969, fig. 12, pl. 43,3, collection 5, thin section 265, specimen 2, TPI, Tomsk


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Fig. 663, 5a-c. * R. giratus, Ungut Formation, Atdabanian, Mana River, East Sayan, Altay Sayan, Russia, a, paratype, TPI collection 5, thin section 261, specimen 5, transverse section, X20, b, paratype, TPI collection 5 , thin section 261 , specimen 8 , transverse section, X20, c, holotype, TPI collection 5 , thin section 265, specimen 2 , longitudinal section, X20 (Jankauskas, 1969).


Synonyms

Ramifer


Geographic Distribution

Altay Sayan, Mongolia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
lower Cambrian (Tommotian 2)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 2
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
63
    Beginning Date:  
523.96
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
lower Cambrian (Atdabanian 4)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 3
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
75
    Ending Date:  
516.13


Description

Transverse section circular to elliptical, peripterates well developed, open externally




References

Jankauskas, T. V. 1969. Pterotsiatidy nizhnego kembriya Krasnoyarskogo kryazha (Vostochnyy Sayan) [Pterocyathids from the Lower Cambrian of the Krasnoyarsk Range (East Sayan)]. In I. T. Zhuravleva, ed., Biostratigrafiya i Paleontologiya Nizhnego Kembriya Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka [Lower Cambrian Biostratigraphy and Paleontology of Siberia and the Far East]. Nauka. Moscow. p. 114-157, 29 fig., pl. 43-50.


Museum or Author Information

Jankauskas, 1969