Biology:Lunostoma
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Short description: Extinct genus of moss animals
| Lunostoma | |
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| Phylum: | Bryozoa
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| Class: | |
| Order: | Cryptostomata
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| Suborder: | Rhabdomesina
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| Family: | Rhomboporidae
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| Genus: | Lunostoma Ernst et al., 2012
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Lunostoma is an extinct genus of bryozoans which existed during the middle Devonian of what is now Germany , precisely from the Gerolstein syncline. It was described by Andrej Ernst, Paul D. Taylor, Jan Bohatý and Patrick N. Wyse Jackson in 2012, and the type species is L. pulchra.[1]
Morphology
Lunostoma was a small animal, branches being about 1.3 mm wide.[1] It is unique among Rhabdomesina bryozoans in featuring "scutes", crescent-shaped structures on the proximal side of apertures.[1] The function of these structures, which resemble the lunaria of cystoporate bryozoans, is unclear, and it is possibly an example of convergent evolution.[1] Otherwise it is similar to Saffordotaxis.
References
Wikidata ☰ Q16754560 entry
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