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Fistulotrypa

Classification

    Phylum:  
Bryozoa
    Subphylum:  
Ectoprocta
    Class:  
Gymnolaemata
    Order:  
Cystoporata
    Suborder:  
Fistuliporina
    Family:  
Fistuliporidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Fistulotrypa BASSLER, 1929, p. 48
    Type Species:  
F. ramosa, OD, Perm., Basleo, Timor


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Fossil Image
Fig. 187, 2a-c. *F. ramosa, type, USNM 159822, a, dark granular boundary, granular-prismatic cortex and lunarium (lower side) in autozooecium, tang. sec., x100, b, dark granular zooecial boundaries and subcircular vesicles, tang. sec., x30, c, large, thin-walled autozooecia (az) in endozone (left), thicker-walled autozooecia (az) and vesicular tissue (v) in exozone (right), oblique long. sec., x30.


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Timor


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Zoarium ramose, monticules flush, center of stereom, peristomes elevated. Autozooecia in endozone contiguous, walls thin, granular, diaphragms few. Autozooecia in exozone isolated by vesicles, oval in cross section, diaphragms closely spaced. Wall with dark, granular, boundary zone and thick, gran-ular-prismatic cortex. Lunaria in exozone, inconspicuous, dark, granular zone commonly not continuous into dark, zooecial boundary, distal granular-prismatic zone thick. Vesicles in outer endozone and exozone, low, broad blisters, large and subangular in tangential view, decreasing in height outward, stereom at surface, granularprismatic structure with tubuli in vesicle roofs and stereom.




References

Bassler, R. S., ,, , 1929, The Permian Bryozoa of Timor: Paläontologie von Timor, Lief. 16, no. 28, p. 36-89, pl. 225-247 (Stuttgart).


Museum or Author Information

USNM