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Rotundocyathus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Porifera
    Class:  
Archaeocyatha
    Order:  
Ajacicyathida
    Superfamily:  
Bronchocyathoidea
    Family:  
Ajacicyathidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Rotundocyathus VOLOGDIN, 1960, p. 422
    Type Species:  
R. rotaceus, OD; holotype, Vologdin, 1960, fig. 1zh, not located


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Fig. 535, 3. *R. rotaceus, Verkhneynyrga Formation, Botoman, Lebed' River, Altay Mountains, Altay Sayan, Russia, holotype, transverse section, X1 (Vologdin, 1960)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Siberian Platform, Altay Sayan, Tuva, Mongolia, Transbaikalia, Far East, South China, Morocco, Iberia, France, Sardinia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
lower Cambrian (Atdabanian 2)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 3
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
18
    Beginning Date:  
519.83
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
lower Cambrian (Botomian 1)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 3
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
90
    Ending Date:  
515.15


Description

Inner wall with one row of simple pores per intersept, septa completely porous, pectinate tabulae may be present




References

Vologdin, A. G. 1960. O rode Ajacicyathus Bedford et Bedford, 1939 i sem. Ajacicyathidae Bedford et Bedford, 1939 [On the genus Ajacicyathus Bedford et Bedford, 1939 and the fam. Ajacicyathidae Bedford et Bedford, 1939]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Doklady 130:421-424, 1 fig.


Museum or Author Information

Vologdin, 1960