Chaetetes

Japanese: Chaetetes
Chaetetes

…The representative genera of tabular corals include Favosites (honeycomb coral), Halisites (chain coral), and Heliolites (Japanese stone coral). In addition, the stinging corals ( Chaetetes, known from the late Paleozoic limestones of Japan, and Chaetetopsis , abundant in the Jurassic Torinosu limestone, etc.) that were previously included in tabular corals are now predominantly considered to belong to the phylum Porifera and class Osteoporifera. For this reason, there is a strong opinion that the geological distribution of tabular corals was limited to the Paleozoic era and did not exist in the Mesozoic era. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Chaetetes" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…床板サンゴ類の代表属としては,ファボシテス(ハチノスサンゴ),ハリシテス(クサリサンゴ),ヘリオリテスHeliolites(ヒイシ(日石)サンゴ)などがある。また従来床板サンゴ類に含められていた刺毛サンゴ類(日本の後期古生代石灰岩に知られるケーテテスChaetetesやジュラ紀鳥巣石灰岩に多産するケーテトプシスChaetetopsisなど)は現在海綿動物門,硬骨海綿綱に属するとの考えが支配的である。このことから,床板サンゴ類の地史的分布は古生代に限られ,中生代には存在しなかったとする意見も強い。…

※「Chaetetes」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Chaetetopsis

>>:  Chaenomeles sinensis (English name) Chaenomelessinensis

Recommend

Common crane (English spelling: Grus grus; common crane)

Order Gruidae, family Gruidae. Total length 100-13...

Exchange rate appreciation - kawase-kiriage

… A fixed exchange rate of each national currency...

Pye

...A city in central Myanmar. In Burmese it is ca...

cream puff

…It is a corruption of the French chou à la crème...

Triumvirate (Latin)

Originally, it referred to the ancient Roman gove...

Aula Regia (English spelling) Aula Regia

…Only the hot baths remain in their original form...

Nagao Ariga - Thank you Nagao

Year of death: May 17, 1921 Year of birth: 13 Nove...

Ujitawara [town] - Ujitawara

A town in Tsuzuki County in the southern part of K...

Valah

… The name Wallachia was mainly used by foreigner...

Hermaphrodite - Hermaphrodite

To have both feminine and masculine qualities. Str...

Mahogany - mahogany

An evergreen tree of the Meliaceae family (APG cl...

Modern masterpieces - Kindai Shuka

This is a book on waka poetry by Fujiwara Teika. ...

Morais, C.de (English spelling) MoraisCde

...Gonçalves, the court painter to Afonso V (reig...

Utsubozaru - Utsubozaru

(1) The title of a Kyogen piece. Daimyo Kyogen. Wh...

Japanese oyster (English name)

… [Cultivated oysters] Oyster farming is popular ...