Hippopodinidae LEVINSEN, 1909

ZÁGORŠEK, KAMIL, 2010, BRYOZOA FROM THE LANGHIAN (MIOCENE) OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC PART II: SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBORDER ASCOPHORA LEVINSEN, 1909 AND PALEOECOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE STUDIED PALEOENVIRONMENT, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 66 (3 - 4), pp. 139-255 : 139-255

Family Hippopodinidae LEVINSEN, 1909 Genus Saevitella BOBIES, 1956

Colony encrusting. Autozooecia with perforated frontal wall. Aperture circular, with short but wide peristome with slightly visible condyles. Dimorphism in apertures common. Oral spines, lyrula and avicularia absent. Ovicell deeply immersed perforated.

R e m a r k s: Bobies (1956) proposed family Phylactelliporidae Bassler, 1953 for this genus, due to the general similarities with Phylactella HINCKS, 1879. A lyrula was described (but not illustrated) also by David and Pouyet (1974), which proof the family attribution. However, no lyrula was visible on type material illustrated by Gordon (in Bock, 2010). Due to the presence of perforated frontal wall both of autozooecia and ovicell, absence of oral spines and lyrula and dimorphic apertures, the genus is listed within family Hippopodinidae LEVINSEN, 1909 ( Bock, 2010).