Species

Mucophyllum toomae Kazantseva, Koromyslova et Krutykh

Taxon description

Kazantseva et al., 2024

Diagnosis: Large or medium-sized discoid, solitary rugose coral with a broad calice platform, and a flat-bottomed central pit. The septa are thick and quite numerous. No axial structure and dissepiments were present. The epitheca is thick, septal furrows are strongly pronounced on the sides of the calice. The central zone is free of skeleton elements.

Synonymy list
2024     Mucophyllum toomae Kazantseva sp. nov. — Kazantseva, Koromyslova et Krutykh , pp. 264, fig. fig. 2
Selection of related publications
Kazantseva, E. S., Koromyslova, A. V., Krutykh, A. A. 2024. A new species of Mucophyllum rugose coral encrusted by bryozoans, tentaculoid tubeworms, and tabulates from the upper Silurian of Saaremaa, Estonia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen 312, 3, 261-273. DOI:10.1127/njgpa/2024/1211
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Classification
Organism groupBiota
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCnidaria
SubphylumAnthozoa
SubclassRugosa
OrderStauriida
SuborderStreptelasmatina
FamilyMucophyllidae
GenusMucophyllum
Speciescrateroides
toomae
References based on distribution