Cystoporida

Cystoporida
Sulcoretepora deissi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Stenolaemata
Order: †Cystoporida
Astrova, 1964
Synonyms

Cystoporata

Cystoporida, also known as Cystoporata or cystoporates, are an extinct order of Paleozoic bryozoans in the class Stenolaemata. Their fossils are found from Ordovician to Triassic strata.

All cystoporatan bryozoan genera (around 50 or so) have a "cystopore", a chamber-like supporting structure, separated from each other by transverse septa, situated between the characteristically elongated zooecia of each individual colony.

Families

References

  1. ↑ "Cystoporata".
  2. ↑ Pachut, J. F.; Horowitz, A. S. (2013). "Cladistic assignment of specimens to species of the cystoporate bryozoan genera Strotopora Ulrich and Cliotrypa Ulrich and Bassler using gap-coded characters". Journal of Paleontology. 87 (2): 197. doi:10.1666/11-125R.1.
  3. ↑ Lehmann, Ulrich (1983). Fossil Invertebrates. Cambridge University Press. p. 226. ISBN 9780521270281.
  4. ↑ Astrova, G.G. (1965-09-01). "A new order of Paleozoic Bryozoa". International Geology Review. 7 (9): 1622–1628. doi:10.1080/00206816509474214. ISSN 0020-6814.
  5. ↑ Yancey, Thomas E.; Jackson, Patrick N. Wyse; Sutton, Barry G.; Gottfried, Richard J. (2019). "Evactinoporidae, a new family of Cystoporata (Bryozoa) from the Mississippian of North America: growth and functional morphology". Journal of Paleontology. 93 (6): 1058–1074. doi:10.1017/jpa.2019.62. ISSN 0022-3360. S2CID 202176564.