Heliolites
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| Heliolites Temporal range:
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subphylum: | Anthozoa |
| Class: | †Tabulata |
| Order: | †Heliolitida |
| Family: | †Heliolitidae |
| Genus: | †Heliolites Dana, 1846[1] |
Heliolites is a large and heterogenous[2] genus of extinct tabulate corals in the family Heliolitidae.[3] Specimens have been found in Ordovician[4] to Devonian[5] beds in North America,[6] Europe,[5] Africa,[7] Asia,[8] and Australia.[4] The genus is particularly abundant in the Wellin Member of the Hanonet Formation of Belgium.[9]
Members of the genus are distinguished by a prominent tubular coenenchyme (the tissue linking neighboring polyps) with 14–17 tubules around each corallite (the stony cup in which each polyp sits.)[10]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Dana, J. D. 1846. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838 to 1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes. 7, Zoophytes. 1-740 and atlas.
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