Cribrilinidae

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Cribrilinidae
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Gymnolaemata
Order: Cheilostomatida
Suborder: Flustrina
Superfamily: Cribrilinoidea
Family: Cribrilinidae
Hincks, 1879
Genera

See classification

The Cribrilinidae family is a part of the suborder Flustrina within the bryozoans. They are characterized by numerous spinose ribs (costae) overarching the frontal membrane of each zooid.

The family was first described by Thomas Hincks in 1879. [1]

Classification

The diverse nature of the large number of genera included in this family (115) may require it to be split into several families.

References

  1. Bock, P. (2023). "World List of Bryozoa. Cribrilinidae Hincks, 1879". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  2. 1 2 Ehrhard Voigt; Dennis Gordon (1995). "Ascancestor and Confusocella-two new genera of cheilostomate Bryozoa from the Upper Cretaceous with transitional frontal-shield morphologies". Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe A Geologie und Paläontologie. 16: 15–23. doi:10.23689/FIDGEO-5944. Wikidata   Q122708022.