Bryozoan growth habits: Classification and analysis

From: Journal of Paleontology | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

STEVEN J. HAGEMAN,1 PHILIP E. BOCK,2 YVONNE BONE,3 AND BRIAN McGOWRAN3

ABSTRACT-Bryozoans are an important part of the benthic marine fauna in a wide variety of modern environments and are found in rock forming abundance in a number of settings throughout much of the Phanerozoic. Bryozool ogists and nonspecialists have grouped taxa into colonial growth forms (e.g., erect fenestrates or encrusting sheets), both to simplify analyses and because correlations exist between some colony growth forms and the environmental conditions in which the organism lived. These correlations allow for the ...

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