Biology:Stenodiscus

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Short description: Extinct genus of bryozoan

Stenodiscus
Temporal range: Mississippian-Upper Permian 346.7–252.17 Ma
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Stenolaemata
Order: Trepostomida
Family: Stenoporidae
Genus: Stenodiscus
Crockford 1945

Stenodiscus is an extinct genus of bryozoan of the family Stenoporidae, known from the Carboniferous to the Upper Permian periods. Its colonies were large and could be encrusting, massive, or branching, sometimes made of multiple layers of growth over themselves, and usually possessed monticules with abundant large acanthostyles.[1]

Species

The following species are recognized:[2]

  • Stenodiscus moniliformis Sakagami 1995
  • Lu 1982 †Stenodiscus anfuensis
  • Li 1985 †Stenodiscus aohenqulutensis
  • Liu 1980 †Stenodiscus belemnos
  • Liu 1980 Liu 1980
  • Waagen and Wentzel 1886 Yang 1958
  • Morozova 1970 Liu 1980
  • Li 1977 Crockford 1945
  • Kiseleva 1970 Liu 1980
  • Stenodiscus polylamellatus †Stenodiscus xizangensis
  • Stenodiscus inclutus †Stenodiscus manchuriensis
  • Stenodiscus monilifer †Stenodiscus murdockensis
  • Liu 1980 Xia 1986
  • Stenodiscus bifucatus †Stenodiscus chaetetiformis
  • Stenodiscus giganteus †Stenodiscus incertus
  • Liu 1980 Yabe and Sugiyama 1942
  • Morozova 1970 Gilmour et al. 1997
  • Liu 1980 †Stenodiscus simplex
  • Stenodiscus tumenlingensis †Stenodiscus sijiashanensis
  • Stenodiscus altiplana †Stenodiscus instabilis
  • Stenodiscus megatubulus †Stenodiscus permianus

References

  1. Gilmour, Ernest H.; McColloch, Miriam E.; Wardlaw, Bruce R. (1997). "Bryozoa of the Murdock Mountain Formation (Wordian, Permian), Leach Mountains, Northeastern Nevada". Journal of Paleontology 71 (2): 214–236. doi:10.1017/S0022336000039159. 
  2. "Stenodiscus Crockford 1945". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=25358. 

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