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Heteropora scholzi
Taxonomy
Heteropora scholzi was named by Gordon and Taylor (2015) [Colony erect, ramose, comprising moderately robust bifurcating branches subcircular in cross section and of uneven diameter; branch diameter 2.3-3.5 mm, broadest at level of autozooidal bands, narrower in areas between bands which are approximately 3 mm apart along the length of the branch. Broken branches may reveal internal cap-like, dome-shaped skeletal units paralleling former positions of branch growth tips (Fig. 14C, D), the endozonal walls proximally and distally of the units not being preserved. Early astogeny unknown. Autozooids free-walled, apertures subcircular or somewhat longitudinally elongate, large, 0.22-0.25 by 0.19-0.24 mm in diameter, generally separated by one or more kenozooids. Kenozooids free-walled, substantially smaller than the autozooids, apertures funnel-shaped, countersunk beneath the polygonal rim formed by the sharp-edged interzooidal walls which tend to be highest at triple junctions, internal aperture diameter 0.03-0.11 mm, external kenozooid diameter between zooidal boundaries 0.09-0.32 mm. Terminal diaphragms not observed. Gonozooid unknown, although the internal dome-shaped structures described above may perhaps mark the former locations of gonozooids. ]. Its type specimen is IGNS BZ249 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tumaio Limestone, Chatham Island, which is in an Eocene transition zone/lower shoreface tuff in New Zealand.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2015 | Heteropora scholzi Gordon and Taylor p. 15 figs. 14, 15 |
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†Heteropora scholzi Gordon and Taylor 2015
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available