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Actinostroma

Stromatoporoidea - Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1886Actinostroma Nicholson
1969Trigonostroma Bogoyavlenskaya
1977Auroriina Bogoyavlenskaya
1977Lamelliostroma Bogoyavlenskaya
1985Lamelliostroma Bolshakova and Ulitina
1996Actinostroma Stearn p. 198
1999Actinostroma Stearn et al.
2002Actinostroma Sepkoski
2002Auroria Sepkoski
2002Trigonostroma Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classStromatoporoidea(Nicholson and Murie 1878)
RankNameAuthor
orderActinostromatidaBogoyavlenskaya 1969
familyActinostromatidaeNicholson 1886
genusActinostromaNicholson 1886

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Actinostroma Nicholson 1886
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Actinostroma expansum Hall and Whitfield 1873
Actinostroma fenestratum Nicholson 1889
Actinostroma filixtextum Lecompte 1951
Actinostroma praesalevensis Zuffardi-Comerci 1932
Actinostroma stellulatum Nicholson 1885
Actinostroma tyrrelli Nicholson 1891
Actinostroma undulatum Yang and Dong 1963
Invalid names: Auroriina Bogoyavlenskaya 1977 [synonym], Lamelliostroma Bogoyavlenskaya 1977 [synonym], Trigonostroma Bogoyavlenskaya 1969 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calciteo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Diet 2: photosymbiotico
Vision: blindo
Created: 2007-09-07 03:24:54
Modified: 2010-02-15 07:23:24
Source: o = order
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Soudleyan to the top of the Oxfordian or 457.50000 to 157.30000 Ma

Collections (216 total)

Oldest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Soudleyan - Onnian457.5 - 449.5China (GanSu) A. sp. (8545)
Telychian - Wenlock438.5 - 427.4Canada (Manitoba) A. sp. (26662 26674)
Sheinwoodian433.4 - 430.5Sweden (Gotland) A. astroites, A. sp. (13592) A. sp. (13597)
Wenlock433.4 - 427.4Russian Federation (Tyva) A. jurmanense (78717)
Gorstian427.4 - 425.6Russian Federation Trigonostroma abeuptum (60286)
Ludlow427.4 - 423.0Russian Federation Trigonostroma abruptum (23709)
Ludfordian425.6 - 423.0Tajikistan A. intermedium (78972)
Ludfordian425.6 - 423.0USA (Indiana) A. sp. (6706)
Ludfordian425.6 - 423.0Sweden A. sp. (34406)
Lochkovian419.2 - 410.8Australia (New South Wales) A. sp. (24907)

Youngest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state PBDB collection number
Frasnian - Famennian382.7 - 358.9Czech Republic (Moravia) A. sp. (39168)
Late/Upper Devonian382.7 - 358.9China (Guangxi) A. sp. (4695)
Middle Frasnian382.4 - 379.5China (Guangxi) A. sp. (13008 13010)
Middle Frasnian382.4 - 379.5Poland A. bifarium, A. crassepilatum (82744)
Middle Frasnian (interglacial)382.4 - 379.5Belgium (Namur) A. sp. (158156)
Late/Upper Frasnian379.5 - 376.1Czech Republic A. dehorneae (83236)
Late/Upper Frasnian379.5 - 376.1Russian Federation (Kemerovskaya Oblast) A. ignotum (84378)
Early/Lower Famennian376.1 - 370.6Russian Federation (Kemerovskaya Oblast) A. quasifenestratum (84376)
Late/Upper Famennian364.7 - 360.7Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) A. miraculum (84307)
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3Somalia A. praesalevensis (92962 93012 93013)