Catenipora
Extinct genus of corals
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Catenipora is an extinct genus of tabulate corals in the family Halysitidae, known from the Ordovician to the Silurian.
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| Catenipora sp. in Museum Mensch und Natur, Munich, Germany. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subphylum: | Anthozoa |
| Class: | †Tabulata |
| Family: | †Halysitidae |
| Genus: | †Catenipora Lamarck, 1816[1] |
| Species | |
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Several, including:
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C. elegans is known from the Silurian of Estonia.[2][3][4][5][6]
Species
- †Catenipora approximata
- †Catenipora arctica
- †Catenipora capilliformis
- †Catenipora copulata
- †Catenipora crassaeformis
- †Catenipora distans
- †Catenipora elegans
- †Catenipora escharoides
- †Catenipora exilis
- †Catenipora gotlandica
- †Catenipora jingyangensis
- †Catenipora maxima
- †Catenipora obliqua
- †Catenipora panga
- †Catenipora robusta
- †Catenipora rubraeformis
- †Catenipora septosa
- †Catenipora tapaensis
- †Catenipora tiewadianensis
- †Catenipora tongchuanensis
- †Catenipora tractabilis
- †Catenipora vespertina
- †Catenipora workmanae
- †Catenipora wrighti
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