Tabulophyllum

Tabulophyllum
Temporal range: Devonian
~403–361 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hexacorallia
Subclass: †Rugosa
Order: †Stauriida
Family: †Kyphophyllidae
Subfamily: †Kyphophyllinae
Genus: †Tabulophyllum
Fenton and Fenton 1924
Species

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Tabulophyllum is an extinct genus of horn coral belonging to the order Stariidae and family Kyphophyllidae.[1] Specimens have been found in Devonian beds in Australia[2] North America,[3] and most other major areas of Devonian outcrops. The genus was highly adaptable to a variety of substrates, including muddy, sandy, and firm substrates.[4] The genus had a low-magnesium calcite skeleton and may have flourished in times of "calcite seas".[5] There is evidence from fossil reefs in the Onate Formation of New Mexico, US that the genus favored the receptaculitid Sphaerospongia as a firm substrate for growth.[6]

Species

  • T. buccinum Sorauf 1998[3]
  • T. carinatum Zhen 1995[2]
  • T. curtum Sorauf 1998[3]
  • T. levorsoni Sorauf 1998[3]
  • T. mutabile Sorauf 1998[3]
  • T. traversensis Winchell 1866[6][5]

References

  1. ^ Brownlaw, R. S.; Jell, J. S. (2008). "Middle and Upper Devonian Rugose Corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 35: 1–126. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b Zhen, Yong-Yi (January 1995). "Late Emsian rugose corals of the Mount Podge area, Burdekin Basin, north Queensland". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 19 (3): 193–234. doi:10.1080/03115519508619506.
  3. ^ a b c d e Sorauf, J. E. (1998). "Frasnian (Upper Devonian) rugose corals from the Lime Creek and Shell Rock Formations of Iowa". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 113 (355): 1–159.
  4. ^ Sorauf, J. E. (1988). "The Devonian Rugose Coral Genus Tabulophyllum Fenton and Fenton, 1924". Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on the Devonian System — Memoir 14, Volume III: Paleontology, Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy: 397–412. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b Webb, Gregory E.; Sorauf, James E. (1 May 2002). "Zigzag microstructure in rugose corals: A possible indicator of relative seawater Mg/Ca ratios". Geology. 30 (5): 415–418. Bibcode:2002Geo....30..415W. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0415:ZMIRCA>2.0.CO;2.
  6. ^ a b Sorauf, James E. (January 1987). "The rugose coral Tabulophyllum traversensis from the Oñate Formation (Middle Devonian) of the Mud Springs Mountains, New Mexico". Journal of Paleontology. 61 (1): 14–20. Bibcode:1987JPal...61...14S. doi:10.1017/S0022336000028158. S2CID 131923020.


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