Prasopora Nicholson & Etheridge, 1877

Type species: Prasopora grayae Nicholson & Etheridge, 1877

Synonyms Author Type Species
Prasoporella Vinassa de Regny, 1915 Prasopora carnica Vinassa de Regny, 1920
Prasoporina Bassler, 1952 Monticulipora selwynii Nicholson, 1881

Aspidopora has also been synonymised with Prasopora, but this is dubious.

This genus includes the species:

  1. Prasopora affinis
    		2.  Foord, 1883 Late Ordovician Caradoc Canada, USA WoRMS 1407001
  2. Prasopora argentina
    		3.  Carrera, 2003 Middle Ordovician Argentina WoRMS 1407002
  3. Prasopora calycula
    		4.  (James, 1875) Late Ordovician Caradoc USA (Kentucky) WoRMS 1413139
  4. Prasopora carnica
    		5.  Vinassa de Regny, 1915 Late Ordovician Caradoc Italy WoRMS 1407003
  5. Prasopora clariondi
    		6.  Termier & Termier, 1950 Ordovician Llandeilian-Caradocian Morocco WoRMS 1407004
  6. Prasopora codonophylloides
    		7.  Yang & Xia, 1976 Early Silurian China (Yunnan) WoRMS 1407005
  7. Prasopora contigua
    		8.  Ulrich, 1886 Late Ordovician Caradoc USA (Minnesota, Maryland, Kentucky) WoRMS 1407006
  8. Prasopora discula
    		9.  Coryell, 1921 Late Ordovician Caradoc USA (Tennessee, Alabama) WoRMS 1407007
  9. Prasopora donensis
    		10.  Parks & Dyer, 1922 Late Ordovician Caradoc Canada (Ontario) WoRMS 1407008
  10. Prasopora elegantula
    		11.  (Ulrich, 1893) Ordovician USA (Minnesota) WoRMS 1413140
  11. Prasopora esthonica
    		12.  Modzalevskaya, 1953 Ordovician Estonia, Russia, Belarus WoRMS 1407009
  12. Prasopora falesi
    		13.  (James, 1884) Ordovician USA (Kentucky) WoRMS 1413141
  13. Prasopora filmorensis
    		14.  Ulrich, 1895 Late Ordovician Caradoc USA (Minnesota, Michigan) WoRMS 1407010
  14. Prasopora? fistuliporoides
    		15.  Vinassa de Regny, 1910 Late Ordovician Caradoc Italy (Sardinia) WoRMS 1407011
  15. Prasopora gotlandica
    		16.  Hennig, 1908 Silurian Sweden (Gotland) WoRMS 1407012
  16. Prasopora grandis
    		17.  (Ulrich, 1886) Ordovician USA, Canada WoRMS 1413142
  17. Prasopora grayae
    		18. Nicholson & Etheridge, 1877 Ordovician Scotland, Wales WoRMS 1407013
  18. Prasopora hero (?)
    		19.  Seely, 1906 Ordovician Darriwillian USA Vermont WoRMS 1414471
  19. Prasopora hybrida
    		20.  Fritz, 1957 Ordovician Canada WoRMS 1407014
  20. Prasopora insularis
    		21.  Ulrich, 1895 Ordovician USA, Canada WoRMS 1407015
  21. Prasopora isolata
    		22.  Caley, 1936 Ordovician Canda, Russia, Mongolia WoRMS 1407016
  22. Prasopora juvenalis
    		23.  Modzalevskaya, 1979 L. Silurian Russia WoRMS 1407017
  23. Prasopora kasakhstanica
    		24.  Pushkin, 1991 Ordovician Kazakhstan WoRMS 1407018
  24. Prasopora lenticularis
    		25.  Ulrich, 1893 Ordovician USA (Minn.) WoRMS 1407019
  25. Prasopora megacystata
    		26.  McKinney, 1971 Ordovician USA (Alabama) WoRMS 1407020
  26. Prasopora mesoporosa
    		27.  Fritz, 1957 Ordovician Canada WoRMS 1407021
  27. Prasopora nodosa
    		28.  Ulrich, 1883 Ordovician USA (Kentucky, Tennessee) WoRMS 1407022
  28. Prasopora oculata
    		29.  (Foord, 1883) Late Ordovician Caradoc Canada, USA WoRMS 1413143
  29. Prasopora orientalis
    		30.  Ulrich, 1895 Ordovician Canada, USA WoRMS 1407023
  30. Prasopora palaris
    		31.  Pushkin, 1991 Ordovician Kazakhstan WoRMS 1407024
  31. Prasopora? parmula
    		32.  Foerste, 1887 Silurian USA WoRMS 1407025
  32. Prasopora patera
    		33.  Pushkin, 1991 Late Ordovician Caradoc USA (Tennessee) WoRMS 1407026
  33. Prasopora prismatica
    		34.  Fritz, 1957 Ordovician Canada WoRMS 1407027
  34. Prasopora propria
    		35.  Modzalevskaya, 1979 L. Silurian Russia WoRMS 1407028
  35. Prasopora richmondensis
    		36.  Fritz, 1976 Ordovician Canada WoRMS 1407029
  36. Prasopora sanfordi
    		37.  Sparling, 1964 Ordovician USA (Michigan) WoRMS 1407030
  37. Prasopora sardesoni
    		38.  Sparling, 1964 Ordovician USA (Michigan) WoRMS 1407031
  38. Prasopora selwyni
    (Type species of Prasoporina)
    		39.  (Nicholson, 1879) Ordovician Canada, USA WoRMS 1413144
  39. Prasopora semioculata
    		40.  (Fritz, 1957) Late Ordovician Caradoc Canada (Quebec) WoRMS 1413145
  40. Prasopora shawi
    		41.  Sparling, 1964 Ordovician USA (Michigan) WoRMS 1407032
  41. Prasopora similis
    		42.  Fritz, 1957 Ordovician Canada WoRMS 1407033
  42. Prasopora simulatrix
    		43.  Ulrich, 1886 Ordovician USA (Minnesota) WoRMS 1407034
  43. Prasopora thorali
    		44.  Prantl, 1940 Ordovician France, Wales WoRMS 1407035
  44. Prasopora vacua
    		45.  (Fritz, 1957) Late Ordovician Caradoc Canada (Ontario) WoRMS 1413146
  45. Prasopora wittenburgi
    		46.  Astrova, 1965 Ordovician Russia WoRMS 1407036
  46. Prasopora yushanensis
    		47.  Hu, 1986 Ordovician China (Jiangxi) WoRMS 1407037

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.

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

Prasopora simulatrix from the Ordovician of Kentucky - at Yale Peabody Natural History Museum.

Prasopora. At Mohawk Valley Fossils, Union College Geology Department

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