Laxifenestella Morozova, 1974

Ernst, Andrej, Wyse Jackson, Patrick N. & Aretz, Markus, 2015, Bryozoan fauna from the Mississippian (Visean) of Roque Redonde (Montagne Noire, southern France), Geodiversitas 37 (2), pp. 151-213 : 186

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scientific name	Laxifenestella Morozova, 1974
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Genus Laxifenestella Morozova, 1974 View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES. — Fenestella sarytshevae Schulga-Nesterenko, 1951 by original designation. Mississippian (Serpukhovian) ; Russia.

DIAGNOSIS. — Reticulate colonies of different shape, with relatively wide and thick branches and moderately wide dissepiments. Autozooecia arranged in two rows on the branches, rectangular to pentagonal in mid tangential section. Axial wall between autozooecial rows weakly undulating. Both superior and inferior hemisepta present. Narrow keel with single row of nodes developed (modified after Morozova [2001: 44]).

OCCURRENCE. — Lower Devonian – Upper Permian; worldwide.

COMPARISON

Laxifenestella Morozova, 1974 View in CoL differs from Fenestella Lonsdale, 1839 View in CoL in rectangular to pentagonal shape of autozooecia in mid tangential section and presence of well-developed hemisepta.