Zaphriphyllum

Zaphriphyllum Temporal range: Devonian-Mississippian ~365–343 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Hexacorallia
Subclass:	†Rugosa
Order:	†Stauriida
Family:	†Ekvasophyllidae
Genus:	†Zaphriphyllum Sutherland 1954[1]
Species
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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]

Original description

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

• Z. casteri Armstrong 1958[3]
• Z. daleki Denayer 2015[4]

References

1. Zaphriphyllum Sutherland, 1954, Geol. Mag., v. 91, n. 5, p. 363-365. - --- Hill, 1956, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, pt. F (Coelenterata), p. F267.
2. Hill, D. (1981). "Rugosa and Tabulata". Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. F. Vol. 1.
3. 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.
4. 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.