REVISION OF THE DEVONIAN FENESTRATE BRYOZOAN GENERA Cyclopelta BORNEMANN, 1884 AND Pseudoisotrypa PRANTL, 1932, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A RARE FENESTRATE GROWTH HABIT
Author(s) -
Juan Luis Suárez-Andrés,
Frank K. McKinney
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
spanish journal of palaeontology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2660-9568
pISSN - 2255-0550
DOI - 10.7203/sjp.25.2.19013
Subject(s) - homonym (biology) , devonian , genus , paleontology , habit , taxon , outcrop , synonym (taxonomy) , carboniferous , biology , zoology , psychology , structural basin , psychotherapist
The fenestrate bryozoan genus Cyclopelta is common and locally abundant in Devonian rocks of central and western Europe. Cyclopelta is a junior homonym and is here renamed Bigeyina. The Bohemian genus Pseudoisotrypa, very closely related with Bigeyina and formerly interpreted as a junior synonym of the latter, is restored herein as a valid taxon. Revised diagnoses of both genera and their type species are provided. Also, an extremely rare variation on the conical growth habit is reported in Bigeyina and implies higher plasticity in this genus than usual in fenestrates. The presence of abundant Bigeyina zoaria with this rare growth habit in the well known outcrop of Arnao (Spain), emphasizes the need for the preservation of its paleontological heritage.
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