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Heteronema monroei Bassler (in Cleland. 1911)

Heteronema monroei
Heteronema monroei

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Gymnoleamata
Order: Ctenostomata
Family: Vinellidae
Genus: Heteronema
Species: Heteronema monroei Bassler (in Cleland. 1911)

Information

Geological Range

Middle Devonian

Paleogeographic Distribution

Wisconsin

Stratigraphic Occurrences

Milwaukee Formation
Lindwurm Member

References

(Bassler in Cleland, 1911): p. 169, plate V, fig. 1, 2.

Remarks

From Bassler in Cleland (1911, p. 52): “The remains of this species consist of irregularly meandering black corneous threads which, in the two type specimens, incrust examples of Cystodictya hamiltonensis.”

Online Resources

None at this time.

Media

Images

Photograph of fossil of Heteronema monroei (MPM P16761)
Heteronema monroei from the Milwaukee Fm. (Lindwurm Mbr.) of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (MPM P16761).

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