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Ramiporidra

Classification

    Phylum:  
Bryozoa
    Subphylum:  
Ectoprocta
    Class:  
Gymnolaemata
    Order:  
Cystoporata
    Suborder:  
Fistuliporina
    Family:  
Goniocladiidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Ramiporidra NIKIFOROVA, 1938, p. 197
    Type Species:  
Ramipora uralica STUCKENBERG, 1895, p. 169, OD, L. Perm., N. Urals, USSR


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Fossil Image
Fig. 215, 2a-c. *R. uralica (Stuckenberg), a, vertical mesotheca, vesicles in endozone, stereom in exozone, transv. sec., TsGM No. 982/305, x11, b, autozooecia isolated by vesicular tissue at mesotheca, laminated stereom in outer exozone, deep tang. sec., TsGM No. 982/305, x11, c, primary, secondary, and tertiary branches, median carina, few ranges of autozooecia on obverse side, holotype, Museum, State University of Kazan, Xl (photograph courtesy of V. P. Nekhoroshev)."


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

USSR


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Carb., U.Carb.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tournaisian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
359.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Zoarium bifoliate, branches narrow, with paired second and third order branches, branch ends fused in some, forming fenestrate zoarium, Mesotheca vertical, protruding as carina on obverse side of branch, reverse side of branch rounded, Autozooecia in 5 or 6 ranges on each side of carina, hemispherical in cross section and partially isolated by vesicles in endozone, diaphragms absent, erect in endozone, subcircular in cross section with indistinct lunaria, Vesicles low blisters in endozone, decreasing in height into exozone, Stereom possibly laminated, with tubules, in outer exozone, widely isolating autozooecia.




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