{"id":2774,"date":"2013-12-02T21:18:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T02:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/?page_id=2774"},"modified":"2015-05-26T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T21:40:33","slug":"coccoserididae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/cnidaria\/anthozoa\/tabulata\/coccoserididae\/","title":{"rendered":"Coccoserididae"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"height: 250px;\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-right: 20px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Protarea_richmondensis_250pxW.png?w=605&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 500px; border-left: 50px;\">\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Classification<\/strong><br \/>\nPhylum: <a title=\"Cnidaria\" href=\" https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/cnidaria\/\"> Cnidaria<\/a><br \/>\nClass: <a title=\"Anthozoa\" href=\" https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/cnidaria\/anthozoa\/\"> Anthozoa<\/a><br \/>\nSubclass: <a title=\"Tabulata\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/cnidaria\/anthozoa\/tabulata\/\"> Tabulata<\/a><br \/>\nOrder: <a title=\"Heliolitida\" href=\" https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/cnidaria\/anthozoa\/heliolitida\/ \u200e\"> Heliolitida<\/a><br \/>\nFamily: Coccoserididae (Kiaer, 1899)<br \/>\nCincinnatian Genera: <em><a title=\"Protarea\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/cnidaria\/anthozoa\/tabulata\/coccoserididae\/protarea\/\"> Protarea<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Geologic Range<\/strong><br \/>\nMiddle Ordovician &#8211; Late Ordovician <\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Paleoecology<\/strong><br \/>\nCoccoserididae is an extinct family of stationary epifaunal suspension feeders which have been interpreted to have hosted symbiotic algae in their tissues<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of the Family<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Corallum encrusting, laminar or subglobular<\/li>\n<li>longitudinal skeletal elements greatly thickened and aporose, horizontal skeletal elements thin and sparse to absent<\/li>\n<li>coenenchyme of coenenchymal monacanths commonly so thick that no tubular lumina occur<\/li>\n<li>tabularia with longitudinally plicate walls and with 12 contiguous septa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">[accordions title=&#8221;&#8221; disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Published Descriptions&#8221;]<br \/>\n<em>Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part F, 2 of 2 (1981)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Corallum encrusting, laminar or subglobular; longitudinal skeletal elements greatly thickened and aporose; horizontal skeletal elements thin and sparse to absent; tabularia with longitudinally plicate walls and with 12 contiguous septa composed of monacanthine ?(or rhabdacanthine) trabeculae directed upward adaxially and so thick and long as to fill the lumen with few exceptions; coenenchyme of coenenchymal monacanths commonly so thick that no tubular lumina occur. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/accordion] [\/accordions]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"height: 300px; width: 800px;\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-right: 15px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\">\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Protarea<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/cnidaria\/anthozoa\/tabulata\/coccoserididae\/protarea\/\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Protarea_richmondensis_250pxB.png?resize=250%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classification Phylum: Cnidaria Class: Anthozoa Subclass: Tabulata Order: Heliolitida Family: Coccoserididae (Kiaer, 1899) Cincinnatian Genera: Protarea Geologic Range Middle Ordovician &#8211; Late Ordovician Common Paleoecology Coccoserididae is an extinct family of stationary epifaunal suspension feeders which have been interpreted to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/cnidaria\/anthozoa\/tabulata\/coccoserididae\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coccoserididae<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4812,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2774","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T22h-IK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11792,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2774\/revisions\/11792"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}