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
Fabifenestella
Morozova, 1974
TYPE
SPECIES
. —
Fenestella praevirgosa
Schulga-Nesterenko, 1951
by original designation.
Upper Carboniferous
(Gzhelian)
;
Russia
.
DIAGNOSIS. — Reticulate colonies of different shape, with moderately wide and thick branches and moderately wide dissepiments. Autozooecia arranged in two rows on the branches, rectangular to pentagonal in deep tangential section and fabiform in shallow to mid tangential section. Axial wall between autozooecial rows weakly undulating. Both superior and inferior hemisepta present.Low and wide keel with alternating nodes developed (modified after
Morozova [2001: 53]
).
OCCURRENCE. — Lower Carboniferous – Upper Permian; worldwide.
COMPARISON
Fabifenestella
Morozova, 1974
differs from
Exfenestella
Morozova,
1974
in presence of low and wide keel with alternating nodes.
Fabifenestella
differs from
Minilya
Crockford,
1944
in having rectangular to fabiform autozooecial shape in mid tangential section instead of triangular one.