Volume 41, Number 1, 49-60, DOI: 10.1134/S0031030107010054

New bryozoans (Stenolaemata) from the Middle Jurassic of Moscow City and the Moscow Region

L. A. Viskova

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Abstract

Five new species of stenolaematous bryozoans are described from the Middle Callovian of Moscow City (Krasnopresnenskii Region) and the Moscow Region (Gzhel’ Railroad Station and the quarry between the small towns of Rechitsy and Troshkovo): Entalophora alexeevi sp. nov., Cellulipora retshitsiensis sp. nov., Diplosolen pravus sp. nov., Siphodictyum primarium sp. nov., and Ceata kamushkiensis sp. nov. The last four species belong to the genera that have never been recorded from deposits older than the Lower Cretaceous. The presence of different types of heterozooecia in these bryozoans shows that the functional polymorphism of zooids developed considerably in the class Stenolaemata as early as the Middle Jurassic.

Key words  Bryozoa - Stenolaemata - polymorphism - Middle Jurassic - Middle Callovian - Moscow Region

Original Russian Text © L.A. Viskova, 2007, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2007, No. 1, pp. 46–55.

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