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Taylorcyathus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Porifera
    Class:  
Archaeocyatha
    Order:  
Ajacicyathida
    Suborder:  
Ajacicyathina
    Superfamily:  
Bronchocyathoidea
    Family:  
Bronchocyathidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Taylorcyathus VOLOGDIN, 1955, p. 143
    Type Species:  
Cyclocyathus subtersiensis VOLOGDIN, 1940b, p. 63, OD; holotype not designated, collection not located


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Fig. 543, 3. *T. subtersiensis (Vologdin), Gavrilovskoe Formation, Atdabanian, Belaya Gorka, Salair, Russia, topotype, PIN 4754/50, oblique transverse section, X6 (Debrenne, Zhuravlev, & Kruse, 2002).


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Geographic Distribution

Siberian Platform, Altay Sayan, Tuva, Mongolia, Transbaikalia, Far East, Australia, Iberia, France, Sardinia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
lower Cambrian (Atdabanian 1)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 3
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
521
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
lower Cambrian (Botomian 3)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 4
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
25
    Ending Date:  
513.13


Description

Inner wall with one pore row per intersept and upwardly projecting, S-shaped annuli, septa completely porous, pectinate tabulae may be present




References

Vologdin, A. G. 1955. O kol'chatykh bezdnishchevykh arkheotsiatakh kembriya severnoy Azii [On the annulate, atabulate archaeocyaths of the Cambrian of northern Asia]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Doklady 103:141-143, 3 fig.


Museum or Author Information

T, Debrenne, Zhuravlev, & Kruse, 2002