Constellaria Dana, 1846

Type species: Constellaria constellata Dana, 1849

Synonyms Author Type Species
Stellipora Hall, 1847 Stellipora antheloidea Hall, 1847

This genus includes the species:

  1. Constellaria antheloidea
    		2. (Hall, 1847) Ordovician Caradoc USA, Canada WoRMS 1410560
  2. Constellaria apsendesoides
    		3.  (Bassler, 1911) Ordovician Darriwillian Estonia WoRMS 1410561
  3. Constellaria callosa
    		4. Pushkin, 1976 Ordovician Darriwillian-Katian Belarus WoRMS 1400953
  4. Constellaria cambrensis
    		5. Lewis, 1933 Ordovician-Silurian Wales WoRMS 1400954
  5. Constellaria complicata
    		6. (Astrova, 1965) Ordovician Caradoc Russia Siberia WoRMS 1410562
  6. Constellaria constellata
    		7. Dana, 1849 Ordovician USA WoRMS 1400955
  7. Constellaria constellata prominens
    		8. Ulrich, 1883 Ordovician Caradoc USA Ohio, Kentucky WoRMS 1414765
  8. Constellaria emaciata
    		9. Hayes & Ulrich, 1903 Ordovician Caradoc USA Tennessee, Kentucky WoRMS 1400956
  9. Constellaria fischeri
    		10. Ulrich, 1883 Ordovician Caradoc USA Kentucky, Tennessee WoRMS 1400957
  10. Constellaria florida
    		11. Ulrich, 1882 Ordovician Caradoc USA Ohio, Kentucky, Virgina WoRMS 1400958
  11. Constellaria floridaeformis
    		12. Jaroshinskaya, 1960 Ordovician Caradocian Russia Siberia WoRMS 1400959
  12. Constellaria islensis
    		13. Ross, 1963 Ordovician Llanvirn-Llandeilo USA Vermont WoRMS 1400960
  13. Constellaria jiangxiensis
    		14. Hu, 1986 Late Ordovician China Jiangxi WoRMS 1400961
  14. Constellaria lamellosa
    		15. Coryell, 1921 Ordovician Caradoc USA Tennessee WoRMS 1400962
  15. Constellaria limitaris
    		16. (Ulrich, 1879) Ordovician Ashgill USA Ohio, Indiana, Illinois WoRMS 1410563
  16. Constellaria mantschurekensis
    		17. (Modzalevskaya, 1968) Middle Ordovician Kirgizistan? Tuva WoRMS 1410564
  17. Constellaria parva
    		18. Ulrich, 1890 Ordovician Ashgill USA Illinois WoRMS 1400963
  18. Constellaria plana
    		19. Ulrich, 1883 Ordovician Caradoc USA Ohio WoRMS 1400964
  19. Constellaria polystomella
    		20. Nicholson, 1875 Ordovician Ashgill USA, Canada WoRMS 1400965
  20. Constellaria punctata
    		21. Whitfield, 1878 Ordovician Ashgillian USA Wisconsin WoRMS 1400966
  21. Constellaria? serotina
    		22. Kopajevich, 1984 Silurian Ludlovian-Pridolian Mongolia WoRMS 1400967
  22. Constellaria silurica
    		23. (Modzalevskaya, 1977) Silurian Llandovery Kirgizistan? Tuva WoRMS 1410565
  23. Constellaria stellata
    		24. (Modzalevskaya, 1977) Silurian Llandovery Kirgizistan? Tuva WoRMS 1410566
  24. Constellaria stipata
    		25. (Bassler, 1932) Ordovician Caradoc USA Tennessee WoRMS 1410567
  25. Constellaria teres
    		26. Hayes & Ulrich, 1903 Ordovician Caradoc USA Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia WoRMS 1400968
  26. Constellaria varia
    		27. Ulrich, 1893 Ordovician Caradoc USA, Estonia, Canada, Russia WoRMS 1400969
  27. Constellaria vesiculosa
    		28. (Modzalevskaya, 1955) Ordovician Llandeilo-Caradoc Russia, Poland WoRMS 1410568
  28. Constellaria vesiculosa turaelica
    		29. (Modzalevskaya, 1977) Ordovician Ashgill Kirgizistan? Tuva WoRMS 1415141

This information is based upon various sources, but no personal knowledge. I am indebted to the late Alan Horowitz for his compilation, and to Dr. J. Pachut.
I would be grateful for corrections to, or critical reviews of this information. This is not a 'final' version (an impossible ideal), but a working document.

Constellaria from Cincinnati region: at University of Georgia.
Constellaria from Nashville region: at University of Georgia.

Constellaria florida from the Ordovician of Ohio - at Yale Peabody Natural History Museum.

Constellaria polystomella from the Ordovician of Ohio - at Wooster Geologists.

Constellaria article from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Dry Dredgers bryozoans has a photo of Constellaria florida.

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