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Hippoporina sinus

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae

Taxonomy
Hippoporina sinus was named by Brown (1956) [Escharan Hippoporina ? with mamillate frontal wall, ornamented with a sine curve, the orifice horse-shoe-shaped and with a large, immersed, rounded avicularium in the proximal lip.]. Its type specimen is D.40919 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Weymouth's Bore, which is in a Pliocene marine sandstone in the Dry Creek Sands Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Hippoporina.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1956Hippoporina sinus Brown

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
Lophophorata
phylumBryozoaEhrenberg 1831
classGymnolaemataAllman 1856
RankNameAuthor
orderCheilostomataBusk 1859
suborderNeocheilostominad'Hondt 1985
infraorderAscophorina(Levinsen 1909)
Lepraliomorpha(Gordon 1989)
superfamilySmittinoideaLevinsen 1909
familyBitectiporidaeMacGillivray 1895
genusHippoporinaNeviani 1895
speciessinus

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.

Hippoporina sinus Brown 1956
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