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
Species
	See text

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

^ 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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[1] Zaphriphyllum Sutherland, 1954, Geol. Mag., v. 91, n. 5, p. 363-365. - --- Hill, 1956, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, pt. F (Coelenterata), p. F267.

[Hill1981-2] Hill, D. (1981). "Rugosa and Tabulata". Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. F. Vol. 1.

[Armstrong1958-3] 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.

[Denayer2015-4] 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.

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