Zaphriphyllum is an extinct genus of horn coral belonging to the suborder Stariidae and family Ekvasophyllidae.[2] Specimens have been found in Mississippian beds in North America[3] and Turkey.[4] It is the characteristic coral of the Kelly Limestone of New Mexico, US.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Subclass: | †Rugosa |
| Order: | †Stauriida |
| Family: | †Ekvasophyllidae |
| Genus: | †Zaphriphyllum Sutherland 1954[1] |
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Original description edit
Sutherland first described it in 1954 from a rock containing a fauna of the Middle Mississippian age in the Northern territory of Canada.[3] Sutherland proposed the genus Zaphriphyllum for those zaphrentids which still possess a trochoid shape and pronounced cardinal fossula and consistently have dissepiments. These forms usually also show a tendency toward a radial arrangement of the septa in the immediate area of the cardinal fossula. Zaphriphyllum closely resembles Amplexizaphrentis Vaughan; except that, as Sutherland (personal communication) has pointed out, the latter is characterized by the absence, or very sparse and discontinuous development, of dissepiments.[citation needed]
Species edit
References edit
- ^ Zaphriphyllum Sutherland, 1954, Geol. Mag., v. 91, n. 5, p. 363-365. - --- Hill, 1956, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, pt. F (Coelenterata), p. F267.
- ^ Hill, D. (1981). "Rugosa and Tabulata". Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. F. Vol. 1.
- ^ a b c d Armstrong, A.K. (1958). "The Mississippian of west-central New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Memoir. 5. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ a b Denayer, Julien (September 2015). "Taxonomy, Biostratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography of the Late Tournaisian rugose corals of north-western Turkey". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 89 (3): 313–333. doi:10.1007/s12542-014-0245-1. S2CID 129718645.
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