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Inconobotopora
Taxonomy
Inconobotopora is a genus. It is not extant.
It was assigned to Cystoporata by Sepkoski (2002); and to Botrylloporidae by Ernst (2012).
It was assigned to Cystoporata by Sepkoski (2002); and to Botrylloporidae by Ernst (2012).
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Inconobotopora
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Ernst 2012 | Colony conical or encrusting, upper surface flat, ovate, disc-like, marked by outwardly radiating fascicles (rays) of autozooecia. Centre of disc composed of vesicular skeleton, depressed below adjacent ray tops. Fascicles numbering 8–13, all primary (no secondary fascicles intercalated between them). Fascicles composed of tightly packed autozooecia, sometimes in indistinct rows; 2–7 autozooecia spaced across the width of a fascicle; median keels absent. Abundant marginal autozooecia occurring around outer edge of upper surface; spaces between fascicles are filled by vesicular skeleton lacking autozooecia.
Autozooecia is long, tubular, with circular to oval to polygonal apertures. Basal diaphragms abundant; cystiphragms occurring. Lunaria absent. Acanthostyles absent or abundant. Autozooecial walls in endozones granular, finely laminated in fascicle cores and exozonal walls of autozooecia. Vesicular skeleton consists of medium to large sized, mainly irregular vesicles (modified after Tang & Cuffey 1998). |