Tabulophyllum Fenton and Fenton 1924
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Genus Tabulophyllum Fenton and Fenton, 1924
Type species (by original designation): Tabulophyllum rectum Fenton and Fenton, 1924.
Diagnosis.—See Sorauf 1989: 33.
Remarks.—In general, only solitary corals are currently assigned to the genus Tabulophyllum, and the classification of colonial forms as Tabulophyllum by Soshkina (1952), Bulvanker (1958) and Ivaniya (1965, 1980) has been rejected (McLean and Pedder 1987; Sorauf 1989). The new species of Tabulophyllum described herein is apparently solitary but displays a distinctive growth known as “quasi−colonial” and such solitary species with few lateral offsets should also be included in the generic concept of Tabulophyllum.
Similar structures are also known from the closely related kyphophyllid genus Tarphyphyllum McLean and Pedder, 1984. Its type species T. besti McLean and Pedder, 1984 is a solitary species developing few offsets (McLean and Pedder 1984: pl. 11: 4, 7, 10), whereas one paratype is weakly branching to fasciculate (McLean and Pedder 1984: pl. 10: 12). Internally Tarphyphyllum differs from Tabulophyllum only in having a more strongly developed stereozone of dilated septa, masking the dissepiments, a more simple tabularium, and less numerous dissepiments. Because of the striking resemblances between both genera Sorauf (1998: 49) suggests that Tarphyphyllum should rather be regarded as subgenus of Tabulophyllum. Probably some of the weakly colonial species previously assigned to Tabulophyllum should be removed to Tarphyphyllum. Colonial species of Tarphyphyllum may also be very difficult to separate from Smithiphyllum Birenheide, 1962 (McLean and Pedder 1984: 28; Sorauf 1998: 49).
Occurrence.—The stratigraphic occurrence of Tabulophyllum is mainly Upper Devonian and the genus is globally distributed in the Frasnian. Only a few species are known from the Lower Devonian of Australia and Belgium (Tsien 1977; Hill 1942; Sorauf 1989; Zhen 1995). However, the known Lower Devonian species assigned to Tabulophyllum closely resemble the Upper Devonian forms in their general morphology, withlong majorsepta commonly interrupted by large lonsdaleoid dissepiments.
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- Fenton and Fenton
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Stauriida
- Family
- Chonophyllidae
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- Tabulophyllum
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tabulophyllum and, 1924 sec. Schröder & Soto, 2003
References
- Fenton, C. L. and Fenton, M. A. 1924. The stratigraphy and fauna of the Hackberry Stage of the Upper Devonian. Contributions of the Museum of Geology, University of Michigan 1: 1 - 260.
- Sorauf, J. E. 1989. The Devonian rugose coral genus Tabulophyllum Fenton andFenton, 1924. In: N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, andD. J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World (Proceedings of the Second International SymposiumontheDevonianSystemCalgary, Canada), Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 14 (3): 397 - 412.
- Soshkina, E. D. [Soskina, E. D.] 1952. Determination book of Devonian tetracorals [in Russian]. Trudy Paleontologiceskogo Instituta, Akade - mia Nauk SSSR 39: 1 - 127.
- Ivaniya, V. A. [Ivania, V. A.] 1965. Devonskie korally Rugosa Saano- Altajskoj gornoj oblasti. 398 pp. TomskijGosudarstvennyj Universitet, Tomsk.
- Ivaniya, V. A. [Ivania, V. A.] 1980. Devonskie cetyrehlucevye korally Salaira i Severnogo Kuzbassa (sistematika, biostratigrafi a, ekologia). 140 pp. Izdatel'stvo Tomskogo Universiteta, Tomsk.
- McLean, R. A. and Pedder, A. E. H. 1987. Frasnian rugose corals of western Canada. Part 2: The genus Smithiphyllum. Palaeontographica A 195 (4 - 6): 131 - 173.
- Garcia-Alcalde, J. L. 1999. Terebratulidos (Braquiopodos) delEmsiensesuperior de Colle (Sabero, Leon, N de Espana). Trabajos de Geologia 21: 159 - 176.
- McLean, R. A. and Pedder, A. E. H. 1984. Frasnian rugose corals of western Canada. Part 1: Chonophyllidae and Kyphophyllidae. Palaeontographica A 184 (1 - 3): 1 - 38.
- 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.
- Birenheide, R. 1962. Revision der koloniebildenden Spongophyllidae und Stringophyllidae aus dem Devon. Senckenbergiana lethaea 43 (1): 41 - 99.
- Tsien, H. H. 1977. Especes du genre Tabulophyllum (Rugosa) dans le Devonien moyen et le Frasnien de la Belgique. Annales de la Societe Geologique de Belgique 99 (2): 263 - 282.
- Hill, D. 1942. The Lower Devonian rugose corals from the Mt. Etna Limestone, Qld. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 54 (2): 13 - 22.
- Zhen, Y. Y. 1995. Late Emsian rugose corals from the Mount Podge area, Burdekin basin, north Queensland. Alcheringa 19: 193 - 234.