Heliolites
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | †Tabulata |
| Order: | †Heliolitida |
| Family: | †Heliolitidae |
| Genus: | †Heliolites Dana, 1846 |
Heliolites is a large and heterogenoustabulate corals in the family Heliolitidae.[2] Specimens have been found in Ordovician[3] to Devonian[4] beds in North America,[5] Europe,[4] Africa,[6] Asia,[7] and Australia.[3] The genus is particularly abundant in the Wellin Member of the Hanonet Formation of Belgium.[8]
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.)[9]
References
- ^ Ospanova, Narima K. (2012). "Taxonomical problems of the Heliolitida". Geologica Belgica. 15 (4): 215–219. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- S2CID 132161964.
- ^ S2CID 225729356.
- ^ S2CID 129864709.
- S2CID 133139606.
- S2CID 129867978.
- S2CID 129764359.
- S2CID 236542393.
- ^ 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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