SOME PROBLEMS IN THE EVOLUTION OF TRUE ARCHAEOCYATHI |
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| Abstract: | Representatives of the bryozoan family Rhabdomesidae (the family name and derivatives, misspelled throughout the original version, are corrected in this translation), found in the Lower Kazanian deposits of the Russian Platform and the Upper Permian of the Little Caucasus and of Transcaucasia are described as new species of Rhabdomeson, Rhombopora, and Neorhombopora, n. gen. Rhombopora crassa Ulrich, 1884, from the Upper Carboniferous (Upper Pennsylvanian) of North America, is designated the type species of Neorhombopora, which is characterized by spiral budding in ihe axial zone and by the absence of megacanthopores. Although only three genera and four species of rhabdomesids are recognized in the Upper Permian of the Soviet Union, specimens are comparatively abundant, and the species seem to be good index fossils. Rhabdomeson noinskyi was identified from various localities in the Lower Kazanian of the Vyatka and Nemda river basins; Rhabdomeson floriforum occurs in the Upper Permian Gnishik suite at several localities in Transcaucasia; Rhornbopora ornata is known from the Lower Kazanian of Kirov and Arkhangel'sk Provinces, Komi ASSR; and Neorhombopora polita was found at one locality in the Lower Kazanian of Kirov Province.—H. Duncan |
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