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Genus of coral

Heliolites
Temporal range: Ordovician-Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: †Tabulata
Order: †Heliolitida
Family: †Heliolitidae
Genus: †Heliolites
Dana, 1846

Heliolites is a large and heterogenous genus of extinct tabulate corals in the family Heliolitidae. Specimens have been found in Ordovician to Devonian beds in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The genus is particularly abundant in the Wellin Member of the Hanonet Formation of Belgium.

Members of the genus are distinguished by a prominent tubular coenenchyme (the tissue linking neighboring polyps) with 14–17 tubules around each corallite (the stony cup in which each polyp sits.)

References

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  5. Dixon, Owen A. (November 1998). "Heliolitine corals of the topmost Douro and overlying formations (Upper Silurian), Canadian Arctic islands". Journal of Paleontology. 72 (6): 937–966. Bibcode:1998JPal...72..937D. doi:10.1017/S0022336000027335. S2CID 133139606.
  6. Königshof, Peter; Kershaw, Steve (May 2006). "Growth forms and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of stromatoporoids in a Middle Devonian reef, southern Morocco (west Sahara)". Facies. 52 (2): 299–306. doi:10.1007/s10347-005-0041-1. S2CID 129867978.
  7. Yue, Li; Kershaw, Stephen; Xu, Chen (January 2002). "Biotic structure and morphology of patch reefs from South China (Ningqiang Formation, Telychian, Llandovery, Silurian)". Facies. 46 (1): 133–148. doi:10.1007/BF02668078. S2CID 129764359.
  8. Król, Jan J.; Denayer, Julien; Wolniewicz, Paweł; Zapalski, Mikołaj K. (10 May 2021). "Heliolitid corals and their competitors: a case study from the Wellin patch reefs, Middle Devonian, Belgium". Lethaia. 54 (4): 540–557. doi:10.1111/let.12421. S2CID 236542393.
  9. Wang, G.; Percival, I.G.; Zhen, Y.Y.; Webby, B.D. (2021). "Late Ordovician Corals from Allochthonous Clasts in the Devonian Drik-Drik Formation of Northeastern New South Wales, Australia". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 143: 74.
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