Leioclema Ulrich, 1882

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 : 710

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/g2012n4a1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5465730

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A6D074-FFFE-7E02-FF35-FB2AFB9DFE0E

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scientific name

Leioclema Ulrich, 1882
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Genus Leioclema Ulrich, 1882 View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES. — Callopora punctata Hall, 1858 , by subsequent designation ( Ulrich 1882). Lower Carboniferous ; Iowa ( USA) .

OCCURRENCE. — Lower Silurian to Upper Carboniferous; worldwide.

DIAGNOSIS. — Encrusting,branched, less commonly massive colonies.Autozooecia with polygonal to rounded-polygonal, sometimes petaloid apertures. Autozooecial diaphragms rare. Mesozooecia abundant, with abundant diaphragms, often beaded. Acanthostyles abundant, commonly large. Autozooecial walls thin in endozone; laminated, regularly thickened in exozones (modified from Astrova 1978).

COMPARISON

Leioclema Ulrich, 1882 View in CoL differs from Heterotrypa Nicholson, 1879 View in CoL in having rare autozooecial diaphragms and abundant acanthostyles and mesozooecia, and from Stigmatella Ulrich& Bassler, 1904 View in CoL in having abundant mesozooecia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Bryozoa

Class

Stenolaemata

Order

Trepostomatida

Family

Leioclemidae

Loc

Leioclema Ulrich, 1882

Ernst, Andrej, Fernández, Luis Pedro, Fernández-Martínez, Esperanza & Vera, Carmen 2012
2012
Loc

Stigmatella Ulrich& Bassler, 1904

Ulrich & Bassler 1904
1904
Loc

Leioclema

Ulrich 1882
1882
Loc

Heterotrypa

Nicholson 1879
1879
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