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Actinocoelia verrucosa
Taxonomy
Actinocoelia verrucosa was named by Finks (1960). Its type specimen is USNM 127613 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USNM702, Split Tank, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1960 | Actinocoelia verrucosa Finks p. 72 figs. Pl 17, figs 3-7; pl 18, figs 1,2 |
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†Actinocoelia verrucosa Finks 1960
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. M. Finks 1960 | Bun-shaped, with well-developed, imperforate basal layer; radial trabeculae stout, much larger than canals, and ending at the surface in conical projections bearing low, radiating ridges; surface grooves broad and shallow, convergent towards oscules; radial canals small and circular in cross section; oscules represented by shallow depressions containing clusters of apopores; radially oriented
bundles of parallel, slender monaxons present in at least some of the radial trabeculae. |
Measurements
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| References: Whittington et al. 1997, Kiessling 2004 | |||||