Ischadites

Ischadites barrandei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Receptaculitales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Chlorophyta Subphylum: Chlorophytina Classis: Ulvophyceae Ordo: †Receptaculitales

Familia: †Ischaditaceae
Genus: †Ischadites
Species: †I. abbottiae – †I. barrandei – †I. burntensis – †I. circularis – †I. cyathiformis – †I. devonicus – †I. eichwaldii – †I. elrodii – †I. hemisphaericus – †I. inosculans – †I. insularis – †I. koenigii – †I. lindstroemii – †I. mammillaris – †I. planoconvexus – †I. polaris – †I. prismaticus – †I. squamifer – †I. stellatus – †I. struszii – †I. subturbinatus – †I. tenuis – †I. vichtensis

Name

Ischadites R.I.Murchison, 1839: 697

• According to ING, described as an animal, but R.V. Kesling & A. Graham 1962. J. Paleontol. 36: 943. transferred the genus Ischadites to the Algae.

• Type species: Ischadites koenigii Murchison
• Type locality: Silurian; Lower Ludlow Rock, Great Britain.

Synonyms

• Acanthochonia Hinde, 1884: 841
  • Type species: Acanthochonia barrandei Hinde
• Dictyocrinus J.Hall, 1859: 135
  • Type species: Dictyocrinus squamifer J.Hall
• Ehlersospongia Fagerstrom, 1961
  • Type species: Ehlersospongia stellata Fagerstrom
• Goldsonia Shrock & Twenhofel, 1939
  • Type species: Goldsonia burntensis Shrock & Twenhofel

References

Primary references

• Murchison, R.I. 1839. The Silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford; with descriptions of the coalfields and overlying formations. London, John Murray
  • Part I
  • Part II, Organic remains. 579–768 pp. Pl. 1–37. BHL Reference page. 
• Hinde, G.J. 1884. On the Structure and Affinities of the Family of the Receptaculitidæ, including therein the genera Ischadites, Murchison (=Tetragonis, Eichwald); Sphareospongia, Pengelly; Acanthochonia, gen. nov.; and Receptaculites Defrance. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 458: 121–122. / Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 40: 795–849. DOI: 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1884.40.01-04.61 BHL Reference page. 
• Hall, J. 1859. Natural History of New York. Palæontology. Vol. 3(1), 532 pp. Albany: Charles van Benthuysen. BHL, plates Reference page. 
• Fagerstrom, J.A. 1961. The Fauna of the Middle Devonian Formosa Reef Limestone of Southwestern Ontario. Journal of Paleontology 35(1): 1–48. JSTOR [1] Reference page. 
• Shrock, R.R. & Twenhofel, W.H. 1939. Silurian Fossils from Northern Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology 13(3): 241–266. JSTOR Reference page. 

Links

• Molinari Novoa, E.A. in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2023. Ischadites. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2023-10-26.

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