Bryozoan fauna from the Mississippian (Visean) of Roque Redonde (Montagne Noire, southern France)
Author
Ernst, Andrej
Author
Wyse Jackson, Patrick N.
Author
Aretz, Markus
text
Geodiversitas
2015
2015-06-30
37
2
151
213
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2015n2a2
journal article
10.5252/g2015n2a2
1638-9395
4534998
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BA9B2FF0-9D3B-44AF-894F-419DE5AE4C13
Genus
Laxifenestella
Morozova, 1974
TYPE
SPECIES
. —
Fenestella sarytshevae
Schulga-Nesterenko, 1951
by original designation. Mississippian (Serpukhovian)
;
Russia
.
DIAGNOSIS. — Reticulate colonies of different shape, with relatively wide and thick branches and moderately wide dissepiments. Autozooecia arranged in two rows on the branches, rectangular to pentagonal in mid tangential section. Axial wall between autozooecial rows weakly undulating. Both superior and inferior hemisepta present. Narrow keel with single row of nodes developed (modified after
Morozova [2001: 44]
).
OCCURRENCE. — Lower Devonian – Upper Permian; worldwide.
COMPARISON
Laxifenestella
Morozova, 1974
differs from
Fenestella
Lonsdale,
1839
in rectangular to pentagonal shape of autozooecia in mid tangential section and presence of well-developed hemisepta.