Neotrematopora Morozova, 1961

Ernst, Andrej, Fernández, Luis Pedro, Fernández-Martínez, Esperanza & Vera, Carmen, 2012, Description of a bryozoan fauna from mud mounds of the Lebanza Formation (Lower Devonian) in the Arauz area (Pisuerga-Carrión Province, Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain), Geodiversitas 34 (4), pp. 693-738 : 708

Genus Neotrematopora Morozova, 1961

TYPE SPECIES. — Neotrematopora typica Morozova, 1961 , by original designation. Middle Devonian, Givetian ; Siberia, Russia.

OCCURRENCE. — Lower – Upper Devonian; Altai, Siberia, Kazakhstan, China. Lower Carboniferous; Altai and Siberia.

DIAGNOSIS. — Branched, less commonly encrusting colonies. Autozooecia with polygonal to rounded-polygonal apertures. Autozooecial diaphragms rare, restricted to exozones. Mesozooecia abundant, with abundant diaphragms, partly sealed by calcitic skeleton. Acanthostyles usually abundant. Autozooecial walls thin in endozone; laminated, regularly thickened in exozones displaying merged to serrated microstructure.

COMPARISON

Neotrematopora Morozova, 1961 differs from Minussina Morozova, 1961 in having partly merged autozooecial walls, which in Minussina are distinctly serrated with ridges on the colony surface at the zooecial boundaries.