''Halysitidae'' is an extinct family of
tabulate coral
Tabulata, commonly known as tabulate corals, is a class of extinct corals.
They are almost always colonial, forming colonies of individual hexagonal cells known as corallites defined by a skeleton of calcite, similar in appearance to a honeycomb. ...
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These tabulate corals lived from Ordovician to Devonian (from 471.8 to 412.3 Ma). Fossil corals of the family ''Halysitidae'' have been found in the sediments of Afghanistan, Canada, United States, Venezuela and Australia.
Genera
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Acanthohalysites''
Hamada 1957
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Catenipora''
Lamarck 1816
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Cystihalysites''
Chernyshev 1941
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Eocatenipora''
Hamada 1957
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Falsicatenipora''
Hamada 1958
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Halysites
''Halysites'' (meaning ''chain coral'') is an extinct genus of tabulate coral. Colonies range from less than one to tens of centimeters in diameter, and they fed upon plankton.
These tabulate corals lived from the Ordovician to the Devonian (f ...
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von Waldheim 1828
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Hexismia''
Sokolov 1955
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Quepora''
Sinclair 1955
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Schedohalysites''
Hamada 1957
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Solenihalysites''
Stasinska 1967
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Spumaeolites''
Zhizhina 1967
References
Tabulata
Prehistoric cnidarian families
Ordovician first appearances
Silurian extinctions
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