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Fabifenestella Morozova 1974

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of Ernst, Andrej, Wyse Jackson, Patrick N. & Aretz, Markus, 2015, Bryozoan fauna from the Mississippian (Visean) of Roque Redonde (Montagne Noire, southern France), pp. 151-213 in Geodiversitas 37 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.5252/g2015n2a2, http://zenodo.org/record/4534998

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SPECIES
Scientific name authorship
Morozova
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Order
Fenestrida
Family
Fenestellidae
Genus
Fabifenestella
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Fabifenestella Morozova, 1974 sec. Ernst, Jackson & Aretz, 2015

References

  • MOROZOVA I. P. 1974. - Reviziya roda Fenestella. Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal 1974 (2): 54 - 67 [in Russian; English translation: Revision of the genus Fenestella. Paleontological Journal 1974 (2): 54 - 67].
  • MOROZOVA I. P. 2001. - Bryozoans of the order Fenestellida (morphology, system, historical development). Trudy Paleontologicheskogo instituta Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk 277: 1 - 177 [in Russian].
  • CROCKFORD J. 1944. - Bryozoa from Wandagee and Nooncanbah Series of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 28: 165 - 185.