Cystoporata, also known as Cystoporida or cystoporates, are an extinct order of

Paleozoic The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838 by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and ' ...

bryozoa Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a ...

ns in the class Stenolaemata. Their fossils are found from

Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period million years ago (Mya) to the start of the Silurian Period Mya. T ...

Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 ...

strata. All cystoporatan bryozoan genera (around 50 or so) have a "cystopore", a chamber-like supporting structure, separated from each other by transverse septa, situated between the characteristically elongated zooecia of each individual colony.

Families

* Acanthoceramoporellidae (Ordovician) * Actinotrypidae (Carboniferous-Permian) * Anolotichiidae (Ordovician) * Botrylloporidae (Ordovician-Devonian) *

Ceramoporidae Ceramoporidae is a family of bryozoans placed in the Cystoporata Cystoporata, also known as Cystoporida or cystoporates, are an extinct order of Paleozoic bryozoans in the class Stenolaemata. Their fossils are found from Ordovician to Trias ...

(Ordovician-Devonian) * Constellariidae (Ordovician-Silurian) *

Cystodictyonidae Cystodictyonidae is an extinct family of bryozoans within the order Cystoporida. Members of this family have been known to live from the Ordovician to the Paleogene The Paleogene ( ; also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Ter ...

(Devonian-Permian) * Etherellidae (Permian) * Evactinoporidae (Carboniferous-Permian) *

Fistuliporidae Fistuliporidae is an extinct family of bryozoans within the order Cystoporida. Members of this family have lived from the early Ordovician to the late Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years fr ...

(Ordovician-Permian) * Goniocladiidae (Devonian-Permian) * Hexagonellidae (Ordovician-Permian) * Revalotrypidae (Ordovician) *

Rhinoporidae Rhinoporidae is an extinct family of bryozoans within the order Cystoporata. There are currently 3 genera assigned to the family. Members of this family have lived from the Ordovician to the Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and ...

(Ordovician-Devonian) * Xenotrypidae (Ordovician-Silurian)

References

Prehistoric bryozoans Prehistoric animal orders Permian extinctions Stenolaemata Extinct bryozoans {{paleo-protostome-stub