Avicenia Leleshus, 1974

Zapalski, Mikołaj K. & Nowiński, Aleksander, 2011, A new Silurian Avicenia (Tabulata): taxonomy, growth pattern, and colony integration, Geodiversitas 33 (4), pp. 541-551 : 543

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Avicenia Leleshus, 1974
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Genus Avicenia Leleshus, 1974

TYPE SPECIES. — Avicenia aseptata Leleshus, 1974 from the Turkestan Ridge, Late Silurian.

DIAGNOSIS. — see Leleshus (1974), Hill (1981) and Bondarenko (1992).

OCCURRENCE. — Silurian: Central Asia, Europe.

REMARKS Two previously described species of the discussed genus ( A. aseptata Leleshus, 1974 and A. secunda Ospanova, 1986 ) were known only from Central Asia. The discovery of A. kocyani n. sp. in the Silurian of Europe extends the geographic range of this genus.

Avicenia kocyani n. sp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Tabulata

Family

Proheliolitidae

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