Cystoporida
Extinct order of moss animals
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Cystoporida, also known as Cystoporata or cystoporates, are an extinct order of Paleozoic bryozoans in the class Stenolaemata.[1] Their fossils are found from Ordovician to Triassic strata.[2]
| Cystoporida | |
|---|---|
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| Sulcoretepora deissi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Bryozoa |
| Class: | Stenolaemata |
| Order: | †Cystoporida Astrova, 1964 |
All cystoporatan bryozoan genera (around 50 or so) have a "cystopore", a chamber-like supporting structure, separated from each other by transverse septa, situated between the characteristically elongated zooecia of each individual colony.[3][4]
Families
- Acanthoceramoporellidae (Ordovician)
- Actinotrypidae (Carboniferous-Permian)
- Anolotichiidae (Ordovician)
- Botrylloporidae (Ordovician-Devonian)
- Ceramoporidae (Ordovician-Devonian)
- Constellariidae (Ordovician-Silurian)
- Cystodictyonidae (Devonian-Permian)
- Etherellidae (Permian)
- Evactinoporidae[5] (Carboniferous-Permian)
- Fistuliporidae (Ordovician-Permian)
- Goniocladiidae (Devonian-Permian)
- Hexagonellidae (Ordovician-Permian)
- Revalotrypidae (Ordovician)
- Rhinoporidae (Ordovician-Devonian)
- Xenotrypidae (Ordovician-Silurian)
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