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Frechastraea pentagona
Taxonomy
Cyathophyllum pentagonum was named by Goldfuss (1826). It is the type species of Frechastraea.
It was recombined as Favastrea pentagona by de Blainville (1830); it was recombined as Astrea pentagona by Lonsdale (1840) and Phillips (1841); it was recombined as Acervularia pentagona by Michelin (1845), Edwards and Haime (1851), McCoy (1851), Meek (1877), Walcott (1884); it was recombined as Lithostrotion pentagonum by d'Orbigny (1850); it was recombined as Frechastraea pentagona by Brownlaw and Jell (2008), Eichholt et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Favastrea pentagona by de Blainville (1830); it was recombined as Astrea pentagona by Lonsdale (1840) and Phillips (1841); it was recombined as Acervularia pentagona by Michelin (1845), Edwards and Haime (1851), McCoy (1851), Meek (1877), Walcott (1884); it was recombined as Lithostrotion pentagonum by d'Orbigny (1850); it was recombined as Frechastraea pentagona by Brownlaw and Jell (2008), Eichholt et al. (2021).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1826 | Cyathophyllum pentagonum Goldfuss |
| 1830 | Favastrea pentagona de Blainville p. 340 |
| 1840 | Astrea pentagona Lonsdale figs. Pl. 57, fig. 1 |
| 1841 | Astrea pentagona Phillips figs. Pl. 6, fig. 15 |
| 1845 | Acervularia pentagona Michelin p. 180 figs. Pl. 49, fig. 1 |
| 1850 | Lithostrotion pentagonum d'Orbigny p. 106 |
| 1851 | Acervularia pentagona Edwards and Haime p. 418 |
| 1851 | Acervularia pentagona McCoy p. 19 |
| 1877 | Acervularia pentagona Meek pp. 31 - 32 figs. Plate 2, figs. 5, 5a |
| 1884 | Acervularia pentagona Walcott p. 105 |
| 2008 | Frechastraea pentagona Brownlaw and Jell p. 99 |
| 2021 | Frechastraea pentagona Eichholt et al. |
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†Frechastraea pentagona Goldfuss 1826
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Age range: base of the Early/Lower Devonian to the top of the Late/Upper Frasnian or 419.62000 to 372.15000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Devonian | Morocco | Frechastraea pentagona (221429) | |
| Late/Upper Givetian | Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) | Frechastraea pentagona (82561) | |
| Frasnian | Afghanistan (Ghazni) | Frechastraea pentagona (84705 84706) | |
| Late/Upper Frasnian | Poland | Frechastraea pentagona (61840) |