Escharina otophora ( REUSS , 1847)

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

Escharina otophora ( REUSS, 1847)

Pl. 112, Fig. 1-2

v. * 1847 Cellepora otophora m. – Reuss p. 90, Pl. 11, Fig. 1

1974 Escharina otophora ( REUSS, 1847) – David and Pouyet p. 165, Pl. 11, Fig. 9

1977 Escharina otophora ( REUSS, 1847) – Vávra p. 122 (cum syn.)

Type: Holotype from Eisenstadt deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna under the number 1859.50.785 (identified by David and Pouyet, 1974)

M a t e r i a l: Only 4 specimens were found in the studied sections.

D i a g n o s i s: Colony encrusting with sub-hexagonal autozooecia. Frontal wall slightly granular, convex with small marginal areolar pores. Aperture with a small, narrow sinus, distally having around 5 oral spine bases. Avicularia small, suboral with a well defined pivotal bar. Ovicell deeply immersed, globular without areolar pores. Ovicelled autozooecia usually have a pair of small, triangular avicularia.