Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Melnikova G. (1972). To the revision of some Late Triassic and Easrly Jurassic Stylophylliidae Voltz, 1989. <em>Paleont. Z.</em> 2: 53-63 [in Russian]. [details]
basis of record
Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source
Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]
additional source
Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2021). Lower Jurassic corals from the Pamir Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 30(3): 461-494., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2020.11.001 1871-174X [details]
additional source
Melnikova, G. K. (1975). Late Triassic Scleractinia of South Eastern Pamirs. Pozdnetryasovye skleraktinii yugo-vostochnogo Pamira [Late Triassic Scleractinia of South Eastern Pamirs], 236 pp., 38 pls. [details]
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Comparison From exclusively solitary Stylophyllopsis it differs in, generally, phaceloid growth form which can transform into a subcerioid one. [details]
Description The type species was described and figured in Frech 1890:49, Melnikova 1975:79, ext-fig.6, l.11,fig.2-7, and Roniewicz 1989:125,pl.39,fig.8; pl.40,fig.5-7. The species is characterized by a high intraspecific variability of the growth form. [details]
Diagnosis Growth form phaceloid. Increase lateral. Septa made of septal spines, subcompact. Endotheca from large, vesicular and/or tabuloid dissepiments. Epitheca. [details]
Remark Three species are known from the Triassic. [details]
Status Species of this genus were described under generic names of Stylophyllum Reuss,1854, Lepiconus Stoppani,1857, Stylophyllopsis Frech,1890. [details]
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