Tabulophyllum
{{Short description|Extinct genus of coral}}
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| fossil_range = Devonian
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| taxon = Tabulophyllum
| authority = Fenton and Fenton 1924
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Tabulophyllum is an extinct genus of horn coral belonging to the order Stariidae and family Kyphophyllidae.{{cite journal |last1=Brownlaw |first1=R. S. |last2=Jell |first2=J. S. |year=2008 |title=Middle and Upper Devonian Rugose Corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia |journal=Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists |volume=35 |pages=1–126 |url=https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.178939090796649 |access-date=13 January 2022}} Specimens have been found in Devonian beds in Australia North America, and most other major areas of Devonian outcrops. The genus was highly adaptable to a variety of substrates, including muddy, sandy, and firm substrates.{{cite journal |journal=Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on the Devonian System — Memoir 14, Volume III: Paleontology, Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy |year=1988 |pages=397–412 |title=The Devonian Rugose Coral Genus Tabulophyllum Fenton and Fenton, 1924 |first1=J. E. |last1=Sorauf |url=https://archives.datapages.com/data/cspg_sp/data/014/014003/397_cspgsp014c0397.htm |access-date=13 January 2022}} The genus had a low-magnesium calcite skeleton and may have flourished in times of "calcite seas". There is evidence from fossil reefs in the Onate Formation of New Mexico, US that the genus favored the receptaculitid Sphaerospongia as a firm substrate for growth.
Species
- T. buccinum Sorauf 1998{{cite journal |first1=J. E. |last1=Sorauf |year=1998 |title=Frasnian (Upper Devonian) rugose corals from the Lime Creek and Shell Rock Formations of Iowa |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=113 |number=355 |pages=1–159}}
- T. carinatum Zhen 1995{{cite journal |last1=Zhen |first1=Yong-Yi |title=Late Emsian rugose corals of the Mount Podge area, Burdekin Basin, north Queensland |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |date=January 1995 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=193–234 |doi=10.1080/03115519508619506}}
- T. curtum Sorauf 1998{{cite journal |first1=J. E. |last1=Sorauf |year=1998 |title=Frasnian (Upper Devonian) rugose corals from the Lime Creek and Shell Rock Formations of Iowa |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=113 |number=355 |pages=1–159}}
- T. levorsoni Sorauf 1998{{cite journal |first1=J. E. |last1=Sorauf |year=1998 |title=Frasnian (Upper Devonian) rugose corals from the Lime Creek and Shell Rock Formations of Iowa |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=113 |number=355 |pages=1–159}}
- T. mutabile Sorauf 1998{{cite journal |first1=J. E. |last1=Sorauf |year=1998 |title=Frasnian (Upper Devonian) rugose corals from the Lime Creek and Shell Rock Formations of Iowa |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=113 |number=355 |pages=1–159}}
- T. traversensis Winchell 1866{{cite journal |last1=Sorauf |first1=James E. |title=The rugose coral Tabulophyllum traversensis from the Oñate Formation (Middle Devonian) of the Mud Springs Mountains, New Mexico |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=January 1987 |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=14–20 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000028158|bibcode=1987JPal...61...14S |s2cid=131923020 }}{{cite journal |last1=Webb |first1=Gregory E. |last2=Sorauf |first2=James E. |title=Zigzag microstructure in rugose corals: A possible indicator of relative seawater Mg/Ca ratios |journal=Geology |date=1 May 2002 |volume=30 |issue=5 |pages=415–418 |doi=10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0415:ZMIRCA>2.0.CO;2|bibcode=2002Geo....30..415W }}
References
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