Heliolites

Heliolites
Temporal range: Ordovician-Devonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Anthozoa
Class: †Tabulata
Order: †Heliolitida
Family: †Heliolitidae
Genus: †Heliolites
Dana, 1846[1]

Heliolites is a large and heterogenous[2] genus of extinct tabulate corals in the family Heliolitidae.[3] Specimens have been found in Ordovician[4] to Devonian[5] beds in North America,[6] Europe,[5] Africa,[7] Asia,[8] and Australia.[4] The genus is particularly abundant in the Wellin Member of the Hanonet Formation of Belgium.[9]

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.)[10]

References

  1. ^ Dana, J. D. 1846. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838 to 1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes. 7, Zoophytes. 1-740 and atlas.
  2. ^ Ospanova, Narima K. (2012). "Taxonomical problems of the Heliolitida". Geologica Belgica. 15 (4): 215–219. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  3. ^ 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. Bibcode:1990JPal...64...44Y. doi:10.1017/S0022336000042232. S2CID 132161964.
  4. ^ a b 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. S2CID 225729356.
  5. ^ a b Hubmann, Bernhard; Suttner, Thomas (2007). "Siluro-Devonian Alpine reefs and pavements". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 275 (1): 95–107. Bibcode:2007GSLSP.275...95H. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.275.01.07. S2CID 129864709.
  6. ^ 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. Bibcode:1998JPal...72..937D. doi:10.1017/S0022336000027335. S2CID 133139606.
  7. ^ 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. S2CID 129867978.
  8. ^ 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. S2CID 129764359.
  9. ^ 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. S2CID 236542393.
  10. ^ 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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