Cyrtopora

Cyrtopora
Temporal range: Valanginian - Maastrichtian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Stenolaemata
Order: Cyclostomatida
Genus: Cyrtopora
von Hagenow, 1851[2]
Type species
Cyrtopora elegans
von Hagenow, 1851

Cyrtopora is an extinct genus from a class of marine Bryozoans, the cyclostomes. It lived from 140 - 66 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period of Europe.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
  2. Die Bryozoen der Maastrichter kreidebildung abgebildet und beschrieben. Karl Friedrich von Hagenow T. Fischer, 1851.
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