Description of a bryozoan fauna from mud mounds of the Lebanza Formation (Lower Devonian) in the Arauz area (Pisuerga-Carrión Province, Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain)
Author
Ernst, Andrej
Author
Fernández, Luis Pedro
Author
Fernández-Martínez, Esperanza
Author
Vera, Carmen
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Geodiversitas
2012
2012-12-31
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2012n4a1
journal article
10.5252/g2012n4a1
1638-9395
5380890
Genus
Rectifenestella
Morozova, 1974
TYPE
SPECIES
. —
Fenestella medvedkensis
Schulga-Nesterenko, 1951
, by subsequent designation (
Morozova 1974
).
Upper Carboniferous
,
Kasimovian-Stage
; Russian Platform.
OCCURRENCE. — Lower Devonian-Upper Permian.
DIAGNOSIS. — Reticulate colonies consisting of fine to intermediately robust branches and straight dissepiments. Autozooecia triangular to pentagonal in mid tangential section. Superior hemisepta present; inferior hemisepta absent. Narrow keel with one row of intermediate nodes.
COMPARISON
Rectifenestella
differs from
Laxifenestella
Morozova,
1974
in the pentagonal shape of the autozooecia in mid tangential section and the absence of inferior hemisepta.
Rectifenestella
differs from
Minilya
Crockford,
1944
in the single row of nodes on the keel whereas
Minilya
has two alternating rows of small nodes on the wide keel.