Cystoporata

Cystoporida

Cystoporida

Extinct order of moss animals

Cystoporida, also known as Cystoporata or cystoporates, are an extinct order of Paleozoic bryozoans in the class Stenolaemata.[1] Their fossils are found from Ordovician to Triassic strata.[2]

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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.[3][4]

Families

  • Acanthoceramoporellidae (Ordovician)
  • Actinotrypidae (Carboniferous-Permian)
  • Anolotichiidae (Ordovician)
  • Botrylloporidae (Ordovician-Devonian)
  • Ceramoporidae (Ordovician-Devonian)
  • Constellariidae (Ordovician-Silurian)
  • Cystodictyonidae (Devonian-Permian)
  • Etherellidae (Permian)
  • Evactinoporidae[5] (Carboniferous-Permian)
  • Fistuliporidae (Ordovician-Permian)
  • Goniocladiidae (Devonian-Permian)
  • Hexagonellidae (Ordovician-Permian)
  • Revalotrypidae (Ordovician)
  • Rhinoporidae (Ordovician-Devonian)
  • Xenotrypidae (Ordovician-Silurian)

References

  1. [1]
    "Cystoporata".
  2. [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. [3]
    Lehmann, Ulrich (1983). Fossil Invertebrates. Cambridge University Press. p. 226. ISBN 9780521270281.
  4. [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. [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.


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