Order AULOPORIDA, ?Lower Ordovician - Upper Permian. Tube-like corallites grow up next to each other communicating by pore tunnels (Syringoporicae, Fig. 5A) or are reptant and encrusting surfaces with mural pores (Auloporicae, Joon. 5B). Septal spines are present and tabulae may be absent. Syringoporids are abundant in upper-Silurian outcrops in Saaremaa (Lõo and Katri cliffs). Syringopora affabilis has a peculiar symbiosis with stromatoporoid. Syringopora multifaria is more common. Encrusting Aulopora amica is abundant in Katri cliff.
Order
Auloporida Sokolov, 1947
Order AULOPORIDA
Taxon overview
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
Zapalski, M. K., Vinn, O., Toom, U., Ernst, A., Wilson, M. A. 2022. Bryozoan–cnidarian mutualism triggered a new strategy for greater resource exploitation as early as the Late Silurian. Scientific Reports 12, number: 15556. DOI:10.1038/s41598-022-19955-2
Jeon, J., Vinn, O., Liang, K., Zapalski, M. K., Toom, U., Kershaw, S. 2022. Stromatoporoid-coral/tubeworm intergrowths in the lowermost Silurian Varbola Formation of Estonia: first evidence of competitive interaction. Lethaia 55, 2, 1-13. DOI:10.18261/let.55.2.4
Kershaw, S., Mõtus, M.-A. 2016. Palaeoecology of Corals and Stromatoporoids in an Upper Silurian Biostrome in Estonia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61, 1, 33-50. DOI:10.4202/app.00094.2014
Mõtus, M.-A., Hints, O. (eds) 2007. 10th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. Excursion B2: Lower Paleozoic geology and corals of Estonia. Excursion Guidebook. pp. 1-64. Institute of Geology at Tallinn University of Technology.
Mõtus, M.-A. 2004. Tabulate corals from the Lower Silurian of Jämtland (Sweden). GFF 126, 4, 339-352. DOI:10.1080/11035890401264339
Tchudinova, I. I. 1986. The composition, system and phylogeny of fossil corals. Order Syringoporida. Transactions of the Paleontological Institute (PIN) 216, 1-204. Nauka.
Klaamann, E. 1983. The Tabulate corals of Jaani and Jaagarahu Stages (Wenlockian, Estonia) and their Biozones. Lower Paleozoic paleontology of Baltics and Podolia, pp. 3-40. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Geoloogia Instituut.
Klaamann, E. 1982. Tabulate communities (Late Wenlock and Ludlow, Gotland). Communities and biozones in the Baltic Silurian Communities and biozones in the Baltic Silurian, pp. 35-50. Valgus.
Brood, K. 1978. Skeletal structures of Silurian auloporid corals. GFF 100, 1, 53-63. DOI:10.1080/11035897809448560
Stel, J. H., de Coo, J. C. M. 1977. The Silurian Upper Burgsvik and Lower Hamra-Sundre Beds, Gotland. Scripta Geologica 44, 1-43.
Klaamann, E. R. 1971. Tabulate corals of upper coral limestone in Norway. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised. Keemia, Geoloogia / Известия Академии наук Эстонской ССР. Химия. Геология 20, 4, 356-363. DOI:10.3176/chem.geol.1971.4.12
Stasinska, A. 1970. Some Upper Silurian tabulata from Lezyce-Belcz section (Holy Cross Mts.). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 15, 4, 507-514.
Stasinska, A. 1967. Tabulata from Norway, Sweden and from the erratic boulders of Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica 18, 1-112.
Klaamann, E. R. 1966. The incommunicate tabulata of Estonia. ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused 1-97. Eesti NSV TA Geoloogia Instituut.
Klaamann, E. R. 1962. Upper Silurian Tabulata of Estonia. ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused IX, 25-70.
Klaamann, E. R. 1961. The Wenlockian tabulata and heliolitida of Estonia. ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused VI, 69-112.
Sokolov, B. S. 1955. Tabulâty paleozoâ Evropejskoj časti SSSR. Vvedenie. Obŝie voprosy sistematiki i istorii razvitiâ tabulât (s harakteristikoj morfologičeski blizkih grupp). Trudy Vsesoûznogo Naučno-Issledovatel'skogo Geologo-Razvedočnogo Instituta (VNIGRI) 85, 1-328. Gostoptehizdat.
List of species
1. Adaverina acclinis (Klaamann, 1966) | Adavere Stage
2. Adaverina adaverensis (Klaamann, 1966) | Adavere Stage
3. Aulopora amica Klaamann, 1962 | Přidoli
4. Aulopora assueta Klaamann, 1966 | Adavere Stage
5. Aulopora celsa Klaamann, 1966 | Adavere Stage
6. Aulopora enodis Klaamann, 1966 | Jaagarahu Stage
7. Aulopora necopina Klaamann, 1966 | Kaugatuma Stage
8. Mastopora (Tabulata) foederata Klaamann, 1966 | Jaagarahu Stage
9. Mastopora (Tabulata) incrustata Sokolov, 1955 | Jaani Stage
10. Multithecopora norvegica Stasinska, 1967 | Llandovery
11. Palaeofavosipora clausa (Lindström, 1865) | Wenlock
12. Romingeria nana Klaamann, 1966 | Adavere Stage
13. Sinopora callosa Klaamann, 1966 | Adavere Stage
14. Sinopora operta Klaamann, 1966 | Raikküla Stage
15. Syringopora affabilis Klaamann, 1962 | Paadla Stage
16. Syringopora bifurcata Lonsdale, 1839 | Silurian
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Classification
| Organism group | Biota |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Cnidaria |
| Subphylum | Anthozoa |
| Subclass | Tabulata |
| Superorder | Heliolitoidea |
| Order | Auloporida |
| Superfamily | Auloporicae |
| Syringoporicae | |
| Family | Kozlowskiocystidae |
| Order | Favositida |
| Halysitida | |
| Sarcinulida | |
| Tetradiida |
See also