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
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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
Fistulipora
M’Coy, 1849
TYPE
SPECIES
. —
Fistulipora minor
M’Coy, 1849
. Carboniferous
;
England
.
DIAGNOSIS. — Massive, encrusting or ramose colonies. Cylindrical autozooecia with thin walls and complete diaphragms. Apertures rounded, possessing horseshoe-shaped lunaria. Autozooecia separated by the extrazooidal vesicular skeleton.
COMPARISON. —
Fistulipora
M’Coy, 1849
differs from
Eridopora
Ulrich,
1882
in having rounded, horseshoe-shaped lunaria instead of triangular ones. Furthermore,
Eridopora
develops persistently encrusting colonies, whereas
Fistulipora
may also develop massive and branched colonies.
Fistulipora
differs from
Dybowskiella
Waagen & Wentzel,
1886
in the shape of lunaria, whose ends does not inflect autozooecial chambers.
OCCURRENCE. — Ordovician to Permian; worldwide.