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New species of Hippopleurifera (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the Miocene Pirabas Formation, Pará state, Brazil

RAMALHO, Laís, Vladimir TÁVORA, Kevin TILBROOK and Kamil ZÁGORŠEK

Basic information

Original name

New species of Hippopleurifera (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the Miocene Pirabas Formation, Pará state, Brazil

Authors

RAMALHO, Laís (76 Brazil), Vladimir TÁVORA (76 Brazil), Kevin TILBROOK (36 Australia) and Kamil ZÁGORŠEK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Zootaxa, 2015, 1175-5326

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/46747885:24510/15:#0001244

Organization

Faculty of Science, Humanities and Education – Technical University of Liberec – Repository

DOI

Keywords in English

Cenozoic fossils;marine;Romancheinidae;invertebrate paleozoology
Změněno: 25/3/2016 04:15, Kamil Zágoršek

Abstract

V originále

The Pirabas Formation in Brazil has been studied for many years and a great diversity of animal groups (in particular fishes, molluscs and echinoderms) have been described from there, whereas the Bryozoa have scarcely been mentioned. New samples, collected specifically to focus on bryozoans, have shown that the diversity in this formation is higher than previously thought. Here we describe two new species belonging to the cheilostomate genus Hippopleurifera—H. barbosae sp. nov. and H. confusa sp. nov. Both species were collected at Atalaia Beach, northeastern Pará state, which boasts some of the best marine Cenozoic fossil outcrops in Brazil. After accounting for all described species, plus the two new species and four generic reassignments (new combinations) described herein, some 29 Hippopleurifera species are now known. Most of these are fossils from Europe or the USA, but a handful are known from the Recent Mediterranean, Caribbean and Indo-West Pacific.