Cystoporata, also known as Cystoporida or cystoporates, are an extinct
order
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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 l ...
ns in the class
Stenolaemata
Stenolaemata are a class of exclusively marine bryozoans. Stenolaemates originated and diversified in the Ordovician, and more than 600 species are still alive today.Ordovician to
Triassic
The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period ...
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.
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 Tria ...
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 ( ; British English, also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; in ...
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 f ...
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 a ...