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Fistulipora monticulata (Ulrich, 1890)

Fistulipora monticulata
Fistulipora monticulata

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Stenolaemata
Order: Cystoporata
Family: Fistuliporidae
Genus: Fistulipora
Species: Fistulipora monticulata (Ulrich, 1890)

Information

Geological Range

Middle Devonian

Paleogeographic Distribution

Wisconsin

Stratigraphic Occurrences

Milwaukee Formation
Berthelet Member

References

Owens (1890): p. 477.

Cleland (1911): p. 59.

Gass et al. (2019): p. 46.

Remarks

From Cleland (1911, p. 59): “Zoarium of compressed hollow branches 10 to 30 mm wide and 2 to 5 mm. thick, the actual thickness of an individual layer being less than 2 mm. Surface with sub-solid, rather low, broad rounded monticules 4 to 5 mm. apart. Zooecial apertures with thick rounded peristomes 0.2 to 0.3 mm. in diameter, with a distinct lunarium whose ends project but little in the zooecial cavity.”

Online Resources

None at this time.

Media

Images

Photograph of fossil of Fistulipora monticulata (P38622)
Fistulipora monticulata from the Milwaukee Fm. (Berthelet Mbr.) of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (MPM P38622).

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