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Chasmatopora

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Stenolaemata

Family
  
Phylloporinidae

Phylum
  
Bryozoa

Order
  
Fenestrida

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Hallopora, Constellaria, Fenestella, Trepostomata, Stenolaemata

Chasmatopora is an extinct genus of bryozoans 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.

Species

  • Chasmatopora aperta Kopajevich, 1984
  • Chasmatopora disparilis Liu, 1980
  • Chasmatopora extensa Liu, 1980
  • Chasmatopora flexa Zheng, 1990
  • Chasmatopora livonica (Nekhoroshev, 1960)
  • Chasmatopora moyeroensis Nekhoroshev, 1955
  • Chasmatopora pusilla Astrova, 1965
  • Chasmatopora silurica (Kopaevich, 1975)
  • Chasmatopora sublaxa Ulrich, 1890
  • Chasmatopora tenella (Eichwald, 1842)
  • Chasmatopora tricellata (Nekhoroshev, 1955)
  • Chasmatopora rossae Ernst & Carrera, 2012

    • References

    Chasmatopora Wikipedia
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