Chasmatopora

Chasmatopora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Stenolaemata
Order: Fenestrida
Family: Phylloporinidae
Genus: Chasmatopora
d'Orbigny, 1849

Chasmatopora is an extinct bryozoan which existed in what is now Mongolia, China, Estonia, Russia, Poland, Argentina, the United States and Canada. It was described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1849, and the type species is Chasmatopora tenella, which was originally described as a species of Retepora by Eichwald in 1842.[1]

Species

References

  1. Chasmatopora at www.bryozoa.net.
  2. Andrej Ernst & Marcelo Carrera (2012). "Upper Ordovician (Sandbian) bryozoan fauna from Argentine Precordillera". Journal of Paleontology 86 (5): 721–752. doi:10.1666/12-024.1. line feed character in |authors= at position 14 (help)


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