Hexagonella dendroidea Hudleston 1883 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae

Alternative combination: Evactinopora dendroidea

Full reference: W. H. Hudleston. 1883. Notes on a collection of fossils and of rock-specimens from west Australia, north of the Gascoyne River. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 39:582-595

Belongs to Hexagonella according to R. Etheridge 1903

See also Hinde 1890 and Hudleston 1883

Sister taxa: Hexagonella australe, Hexagonella bifida, Hexagonella densa, Hexagonella faceta, Hexagonella khaophrikensis, Hexagonella kobayashii, Hexagonella laevigata, Hexagonella lineata, Hexagonella miranda, Hexagonella nalbia, Hexagonella nebulosa, Hexagonella petschorica, Hexagonella plana, Hexagonella ramosa, Hexagonella recta, Hexagonella robusta, Hexagonella tortuosa, Hexagonella undulata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Fossil Range, north of Lyons River, which is in a Sakmarian marine horizon in the Callytharra Formation of Australia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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