Zooidal anatomy in Ordovician and Carboniferous trepostome bryozoans |
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Authors: | Andrej Ernst Ehrhard Voigt |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institut für Geowissenschaften der Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24118, Kiel, Germany 2. Parkallee 7, D-20144, Hamburg, Germany
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Abstract: | Fossil bryozoans sometimes contain fossilised brown bodies which remain after polypide degeneration. Position and shape of brown bodies as well as different skeletal diaphragms within living chambers allow outlining of autozooid anatomy in Palaeozoic trepostome bryozoans. In some trepostome bryozoans short autozooids were restricted by complete basal diaphragms to distal parts of autozooecia. In species with alternating hemiphragms, as in the specimen ofHemiphragma sp. described here, long autozooids occupied the entire autozooecial chambers. Their short polypides were positioned in distal parts of the autozooid. Both anatomic types correspond to the progressive polypide cycle afterBoardman. For species with ring septa, non-alternating hemiphragms (studied in an example ofNipponostenopora karatauensis) as well as without any diaphragms the stationary type of polypide cycle seems also to be possible. In that case, the polypides should be as long as the cystid. |
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Keywords: | Bryozoa anatomy Ordovician Carboniferous |
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