Fistuliphragma
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| Fistuliphragma Temporal range: Lower Devonian | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Bryozoa |
| Class: | Stenolaemata |
| Order: | †Cystoporida |
| Family: | †Fistuliporidae |
| Genus: | †Fistuliphragma Bassler, 1934 |
| Type species | |
| Fistuliphragma spinulifera (Rominger, 1866) | |
| Species | |
Fistuliphragma is an extinct genus of cystoporate bryozoans of the family Fistuliporidae[1] that lived in the Devonian period. Its colonies could have branched or encrusting forms, with hollow tubular branches in the case of the branched form, and possessed a well-developed vesicular skeleton. Its autozooecia possessed prominent lunaria and hemiphragms. The genus is distinct from Cliotrypa and Strotopora because of the absence of gonozooecia.[3]