Note on the Carboniferous bryozoan taxon Lanarkopora carbonaria (Etheridge jun.)

✍ Scribed by D. K. Graham

• Book ID: 102224400
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 82 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0072-1050
• DOI: 10.1002/gj.3350240107

✦ Synopsis

In a recent paper in this journal Bancroft (1987, pp. 1-10) ascribed to the genus Septopora Prout a Carboniferous fenestrate acanthocladiid bryozoan, originally described (Etheridge jun. 1873, p. 191) as SJnocIadia carbonaria. but later adopted as the type species of a new genus Lanarkopora (Graham 1973, pp. 10-1 I). Whilst it is possible that Bancroft is correct, he does not appear to have offered sufficient evidence to merit suppression of the genus Lanarkopora at this stage.

The species, as Bancroft agrees, clearly does not belong to the genus Synocladia, but before the erection of Lanarkopora there was no genus to which it could be unequivocally referred. The lectotype (GSE 13000) resembles to some extent Prout's description of Sepiopora, but differs significantly in appearance from his figure (1859, PI. I8 Figures 2a and2b). Regrettably, at the time of my revision of the Scottish acanthocladiid