Reptariidae
Description | Hederellids are extinct colonial animals with calcitic tubular branching exoskeletons. They range from the Silurian to the Permian and were most common in the Devonian period. They are more properly known as "hederelloids" because they were originally defined as a suborder by Bassler (1939), who described about 130 species. Although they have traditionally been considered bryozoans, they are clearly not because of their branching patterns, lack of an astogenetic gradient, skeletal microstructure, and wide range in tube diameters (Wilson and Taylor, 2001). Work continues on assessing the true affinities of hederelloids, but they appear to be most closely related to phoronids and other lophophorates (Taylor and Wilson, 2008; Taylor et al., 2010). From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptariidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | family | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Stenolaemata : Reptariidae | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
Classification (GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Reptariidae | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptariidae |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Clonopora β genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 315 Ma Carboniferous | 315 Ma Carboniferous | |
Hederella β genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 98 | 450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician | 272 Ma Permian | |
Hernodia β genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 423 Ma Silurian | 383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | |
Reptaria β genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 22 | 423 Ma Silurian | 383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian |
References
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |