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Scleractinia taxon details

Phacelostylophyllum Melnikova, 1972 †

1438344  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1438344)

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Stylophyllopsis zitteli Frech, 1890 † (type by original designation)

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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] 
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...  
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]

Status Species of this genus were described under generic names of Stylophyllum Reuss,1854, Lepiconus Stoppani,1857,...  
Status Species of this genus were described under generic names of Stylophyllum Reuss,1854, Lepiconus Stoppani,1857, Stylophyllopsis Frech,1890. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Phacelostylophyllum Melnikova, 1972 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1438344 on 2025-05-19
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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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