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Tegerocyathus
Classification
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Archaeocyatha
Order:
Ajacicyathida
Suborder:
Ajacicyathina
Superfamily:
Erbocyathoidea
Family:
Tegerocyathidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Tegerocyathus KRASNOPEEVA, 1955, p. 90
Type Species:
Ethmophyllum abakanensis Vologdin, 1940b, p. 69, holotype not designated, collection not located, Zhuravleva, 1960b, p. 192, invalidly nominated Ethmophyllum edelsteini VOLOGDIN, 1931, p. 47, as type species
Images
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Fig. 556, 1a-b. *T. abakanensis (Vologdin), Verkhnemonok Formation, Botoman, Abakan River, West Sayan, Altay Sayan, Russia, unlocated syntype, a, transverse section, X5, b, longitudinal section, X5 (Vologdin, 1940b).
Synonyms
Tegerocoscinus, Alexandricyathus
Geographic Distribution
Siberian Platform, Altay Sayan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Antarctica, Greenland, United States
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
lower Cambrian (Botomian 1)
Beginning International Stage:
Cambrian Stage 3
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
75
Beginning Date:
516.13
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
lower Cambrian (Toyonian 3)
Ending International Stage:
Cambrian Stage 4
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
75
Ending Date:
510.38
Description
Inner wall with one row of horizontal to upwardly projecting, straight porous canals per intersept, septa sparsely to completely porous, pectinate tabulae may be present.
References
Krasnopeeva, P. S. 1955. Tip Archaeocyathi: Arkheotsiaty [Phylum Archaeocyatha: Archaeocyaths]. In L. L. Khalfina, ed., Atlas Rukovodyashchikh Form Iskopaemykh Fauny i Flory Zapadnoy Sibiri, Tom 1 [Atlas of the Index Forms of Fossil Fauna and Flora of Western Siberia, vol. 1]. Gosudarstvennoe Nauchno-Tekhnicheskoe Izdatel'stvo Literatury po Geologii i Okhrane Nedr. Moscow. p. 17-21, 74-102, fig. 1-15, 117-156, pl. 1-10, table 2.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Archaeocyatha
Order:
Ajacicyathida
Suborder:
Ajacicyathina
Superfamily:
Erbocyathoidea
Family:
Tegerocyathidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Tegerocyathus KRASNOPEEVA, 1955, p. 90
Type Species:
Ethmophyllum abakanensis Vologdin, 1940b, p. 69, holotype not designated, collection not located, Zhuravleva, 1960b, p. 192, invalidly nominated Ethmophyllum edelsteini VOLOGDIN, 1931, p. 47, as type species
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 556, 1a-b. *T. abakanensis (Vologdin), Verkhnemonok Formation, Botoman, Abakan River, West Sayan, Altay Sayan, Russia, unlocated syntype, a, transverse section, X5, b, longitudinal section, X5 (Vologdin, 1940b).
Synonyms
Tegerocoscinus, Alexandricyathus
Geographic Distribution
Siberian Platform, Altay Sayan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Antarctica, Greenland, United States
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
lower Cambrian (Botomian 1)
Beginning International Stage:
Cambrian Stage 3
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
75
Beginning Date:
516.13
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
lower Cambrian (Toyonian 3)
Ending International Stage:
Cambrian Stage 4
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
75
Ending Date:
510.38
Description
Inner wall with one row of horizontal to upwardly projecting, straight porous canals per intersept, septa sparsely to completely porous, pectinate tabulae may be present.
References
Krasnopeeva, P. S. 1955. Tip Archaeocyathi: Arkheotsiaty [Phylum Archaeocyatha: Archaeocyaths]. In L. L. Khalfina, ed., Atlas Rukovodyashchikh Form Iskopaemykh Fauny i Flory Zapadnoy Sibiri, Tom 1 [Atlas of the Index Forms of Fossil Fauna and Flora of Western Siberia, vol. 1]. Gosudarstvennoe Nauchno-Tekhnicheskoe Izdatel'stvo Literatury po Geologii i Okhrane Nedr. Moscow. p. 17-21, 74-102, fig. 1-15, 117-156, pl. 1-10, table 2.