Heliolites

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Heliolites
Temporal range: Ordovician-Devonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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  1. ^ 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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