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First fossil finds of some Australian Bryozoa (Cheilostomata)

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posted on 2024-06-16, 13:39 authored by P Bock, P Cook
The abundant fossil record of well-preserved Bryozoa in samples from the Tertiary of Victoria and South Australia includes some 'first fossil finds' which are recorded here. Several are of species known from the Recent of the Australian or Indo-West-Pacific regions, but some represent genera with a much wider temporal and geographical range. Of the 11 species illustrated, six are known, or may be inferred, to have inhabited 'sand fauna' environments. Specimens of one species are complete enough to allow its formal description as Chlidoniopsis inopina sp. nov.

History

Journal

Alcheringa: an Australasian journal of palaeontology

Volume

25

Pagination

407-424

Location

Abingdon, England

ISSN

0311-5518

eISSN

1752-0754

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2001, Taylor & Francis

Issue

4

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd.