Biology:Heliolites
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Short description: Genus of coral
| Heliolites | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subclass: | †Tabulata |
| Order: | †Heliolitida |
| Family: | †Heliolitidae |
| Genus: | †Heliolites Dana, 1846 |
Heliolites is a large and heterogenous[1] genus of extinct tabulate corals in the family Heliolitidae.[2] Specimens have been found in Ordovician[3] to Devonian[4] beds in North America,[5] Europe,[4] Africa,[6] Asia,[7] and Australia.[3] The genus is particularly abundant in the Wellin Member of the Hanonet Formation of Belgium.[8]
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.)[9]
References
- ↑ Ospanova, Narima K. (2012). "Taxonomical problems of the Heliolitida". Geologica Belgica 15 (4): 215–219. https://popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=3725. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ↑ Young, Graham A.; Noble, James P. A. (January 1990). "Silurian Heliolitidae (Anthozoa, Tabulata) from the Chaleurs Bay region, Canada". Journal of Paleontology 64 (1): 44–60. doi:10.1017/S0022336000042232. Bibcode: 1990JPal...64...44Y.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wang, Guangxu; Percival, Ian G.; Zhen, Yong Yi (2 July 2020). "The youngest Ordovician (latest Katian) coral fauna from eastern Australia, in the uppermost Malachis Hill Formation of central New South Wales". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 44 (3): 356–378. doi:10.1080/03115518.2020.1747540.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hubmann, Bernhard; Suttner, Thomas (2007). "Siluro-Devonian Alpine reefs and pavements". Geological Society, London, Special Publications 275 (1): 95–107. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.275.01.07. Bibcode: 2007GSLSP.275...95H.
- ↑ Dixon, Owen A. (November 1998). "Heliolitine corals of the topmost Douro and overlying formations (Upper Silurian), Canadian Arctic islands". Journal of Paleontology 72 (6): 937–966. doi:10.1017/S0022336000027335. Bibcode: 1998JPal...72..937D.
- ↑ Königshof, Peter; Kershaw, Steve (May 2006). "Growth forms and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of stromatoporoids in a Middle Devonian reef, southern Morocco (west Sahara)". Facies 52 (2): 299–306. doi:10.1007/s10347-005-0041-1.
- ↑ Yue, Li; Kershaw, Stephen; Xu, Chen (January 2002). "Biotic structure and morphology of patch reefs from South China (Ningqiang Formation, Telychian, Llandovery, Silurian)". Facies 46 (1): 133–148. doi:10.1007/BF02668078.
- ↑ Król, Jan J.; Denayer, Julien; Wolniewicz, Paweł; Zapalski, Mikołaj K. (10 May 2021). "Heliolitid corals and their competitors: a case study from the Wellin patch reefs, Middle Devonian, Belgium". Lethaia 54 (4): 540–557. doi:10.1111/let.12421.
- ↑ Wang, G.; Percival, I.G.; Zhen, Y.Y.; Webby, B.D. (2021). "Late Ordovician Corals from Allochthonous Clasts in the Devonian Drik-Drik Formation of Northeastern New South Wales, Australia". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 143: 74.
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