UGA Stratigraphy Lab

The data is in the strata

• Fossils and Strata
  of the Type Cincinnatian
• Fossils
• Stratigraphy
• References
• Links to Other Cincinnatian Sites
• Acknowledgments
•  
• Trepostomatida

Balticoporella

Balticoporella sp. in longitudinal (left) and tangential (right) sections. Field of view is 1.5 mm. CMC 24663.

Balticoporella sp. in longitudinal (left) and tangential (right) sections. Field of view is 1.5 mm. CMC 6/582 (146).

Balticoporella is a large, ramose form with irregularly subcylindrical branches. Zooecial walls are crenulated in endozone and unevenly thick in exozone. Diaphragms common in exozone, and hemiphragms are common and have bulbous tips (Balticoporella is the only genus from the type Cincinnatian with hemiphragms). Mesozooids are sparse, and styles are absent.

Species

Balticoporella whitfieldi (James, 1881)
Occurrence: Economy, Southgate
Reference: Bassler, 1906; Anstey and Perry, 1972; Dalvé, 1948
Originally named Monticulipora (Chaetetes) whitfieldi. Formerly called Hemiphragma whitfieldi

Comments or questions? Please contact Steven Holland at stratum@uga.edu

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