FAMILY SELETONELLACEAETRIBE DASYPORELLEAESUB-TRIBE MACROPORELLINAEGENUS Macroporella [PIA 1912] BASSOULLET et alii 1978SPECIES Macroporella apachena JOHNSON 1951(by Anonymous) 1. Synonymy list 1951 Macroporella apachena n. sp.- Johnson, p. 26, Pl. 8, fig. 1-4 1956 (?) Macroporella apachena.- Jones, Fig. 4.5.b; according to the author, this figure is from Johnson (1951) 1961 Macroporella.- Johnson, Pl. 54, fig. 1-2, from Johnson (1951: Pl. 8, fig. 1-2) [erroneously labelled "from Carozzi": "Jurassic, Switzerland"!] 1963 Macroporella apachena.- Johnson, Pl. 59, fig. 1-4, from Johnson (1951: Pl. 8, fig. 1-4) 1965 Macroporella apachena.- Kordé, Pl. LVI, fig. 8 1966 Macroporella apachena.- Johnson & Danner, Pl. 55, fig. 10-11 1977 Macroporella apachena.- Vachard in H. Termier et alii, Pl. 2, fig. 1 1978a Macroporella apachena.- Mamet & Roux, Pl. 1, fig. 10, from H. Termier et alii (1977: Pl. 2, fig. 1) 1980 Macroporella apachena.- E. Flügel & Flügel-Kahler, Pl. 4, fig. 7 1990 Macroporella apachena.- E. Flügel, Pl. 4, fig. 1 & 3 1992 Macroporella apachena.- Vachard et alii, Pl. III, fig. 9 pars & 10 pars 1993 Macroporella apachena.- Vachard et alii, Pl. I, fig. 2 2. Type(s) "type" (syntypes): Pl. 8, fig. 1-4, thin section N° 1103, J.H. Johnson Collection, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado (U.S.A.) type locality: Apache Mts, Texas (U.S.A.) stratum typicum: Guadalupian, possibly Capitanian (probably from the Capitan Limestone as Johnson [1951] reports the association to a representative of the fusulinid genus Polydiexodina DUNBAR et SKINNER) 3. Diagnosis original diagnosis (Johnson, 1951): « Thallus cylindrical to barrel-shaped with relatively large central stem. Branches arranged in closely spaced whorls, 20 to 38 branches in a whorl depending on whether at middle or near end. Branches inclined to central stem, expanding gradually from base to end. » 4. Description Measurements: (see above) 5. Remarks 6. Stratigraphic range Early PERMIAN (E. Flügel & Flügel-Kahler, 1980), Guadalupian (Kordé, 1965), Murghabian (Vachard in H. Termier et alii, 1977), Murghabian - Midian (Vachard et alii, 1992), Late Murghabian (E. Flügel, 1990), Capitanian (Johnson, 1951), "Late" PERMIAN (Johnson & Danner, 1966), Dzhulfian reworked (Vachard et alii, 1993) 7. Real distribution Armenia (Kordé, 1965), Greece (Vachard et alii, 1993), Italy (E. Flügel & Flügel-Kahler, 1980), Thailand (Vachard et alii, 1992), Tunisia (Vachard in H. Termier et alii, 1977), Turkey (E. Flügel, 1990), U.S.A. (Johnson, 1951; Johnson & Danner, 1966) 8. Paleoecology
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