Chasmatopora

Chasmatopora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Bryozoa
Class:	Stenolaemata
Order:	Fenestrida
Family:	Phylloporinidae
Genus:	Chasmatopora d'Orbigny, 1849

Chasmatopora is an extinct genus of bryozoans which existed in what is now Mongolia, China, Estonia, Russia, Poland, Argentina, the United States and Canada. It was described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1849, and the type species is Chasmatopora tenella, which was originally described as a species of Retepora by Eichwald in 1842.[1]

Species

• Chasmatopora aperta Kopajevich, 1984
• Chasmatopora disparilis Liu, 1980
• Chasmatopora extensa Liu, 1980
• Chasmatopora flexa Zheng, 1990
• Chasmatopora livonica (Nekhoroshev, 1960)
• Chasmatopora moyeroensis Nekhoroshev, 1955
• Chasmatopora pusilla Astrova, 1965
• Chasmatopora silurica (Kopaevich, 1975)
• Chasmatopora sublaxa Ulrich, 1890
• Chasmatopora hypnoides (Sharpe, 1853)
• Chasmatopora tenella (Eichwald, 1842)
• Chasmatopora tricellata (Nekhoroshev, 1955)
• Chasmatopora rossae Ernst & Carrera, 2012[2]

References

1. Chasmatopora at www.bryozoa.net.
2. Andrej Ernst & Marcelo Carrera (2012). "Upper Ordovician (Sandbian) bryozoan fauna from Argentine Precordillera". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (5): 721–752. doi:10.1666/12-024.1. hdl:11336/52220. S2CID 86306266.