Rhombotrypa is an extinct trepostome bryozoan genus from the Ordovician Period, first described in 1866 by Carl Ludwig Rominger. Rhombotrypa quadrata is one of the few trepostome bryozoans known from the Cincinnatian that can be recognized externally, without analyzing the internal structure of the fossils.[2]

Rhombotrypa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Stenolaemata
Order: Trepostomida
Family: Amplexoporidae
Genus: Rhombotrypa
Ulrich & Bassler, 1904
Species[1]
  • Rhombotrypa multitabulata Utgaard & Perry, 1964
  • Rhombotrypa quadrata (Rominger, 1866)
  • Rhombotrypa ramulosa Bassler, 1923
  • Rhombotrypa subquadrata (Ulrich, 1882)

References edit

  1. ^ "Rhombotrypa". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  2. ^ Jackson, Patrick N. Wyse; Jones, Mary E. Spencer (2002). "The Cincinnati Paleobryozoologists" (PDF). Annals of Bryozoology: Aspects of the History of Research on Bryozoans.