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Pleurodictyum hunsrueckianum A. FUCHS, 1915
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Taxonomy
Tabulate Coral
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria Hatschek 1888
Class: Anthozoa Ehrenberg 1834
Order: Favositida Wedekind 1937
Family: Micheliniidae Waagen and Wentzel 1886
Genus: Pleurodictyum
Species: Pleurodictyum hunsrueckianum
Author Citation A. FUCHS, 1915
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Paleozoic
Period: Devonian
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: Emsian (early)
Stratigraphy
Hunsrück Slate Group
Kaub Formation
Eschenbach Member
Provenance
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Dimensions
Diameter: 6 cm
Location
Eschenbach-Bocksberg Quarry
Bundenbach
Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Comments
Taxonomy from GBIF.org
Description from Südcamp 2017, p. 34: "The colonies of this tubulate coral are more or less circular in outline. The lower side shows concentric growth lines that give it a wrinkled appearance. The upper side reveals the polygonal form of the corallites, which is often hexagonal. The corallites are of different sizes and the thick walls are perforated by pores. Tabulae are usually absent. This gives the colony the appearance of a series of cavities."
Identified by oilshale using Südkamp 2017.
References:
Südkamp, W. (2017) Life in the Devonian. Identification book Hunsrück Slate fossils. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München.
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