| Dybowskites Temporal range:
Ordovician-
Silurian
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|---|---|
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Bryozoa |
| Class: | Stenolaemata |
| Order: | † Trepostomatida |
| Family: | † Ralfimartitidae |
| Genus: | †
Dybowskites Pushkin 1987 |
Dybowskites is an extinct genus of bryozoan of the family Ralfimartitidae, found in the Ordovician and Silurian periods. It forms branching, frond-like, or sometimes segmented colonies. In cross-sections of the colonies, the tubular autozooecia are seen growing alongside the branch axis and then bending abruptly to reach the colony surface at a perpendicular angle. There are many mesozooecia and large acanthostyles that protrude from the colony surface. [1]
Species
Two species are recognized: [2]
- †Dybowskites clava Bassler 1911
- †Dybowskites ernsti Jiménez-Sánchez 2009
References
- ^ Ernst, Andrej; Key, Marcus (2007). "Upper Ordovician Bryozoa from the Montagne de Noire, Southern France". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 5 (4): 395–397. Bibcode: 2007JSPal...5..359E. doi: 10.1017/S1477201907002155. S2CID 85115257.
- ^ "Dybowskites Pushkin 1987". Palaeobiology Database.
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