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Based on the study of the neotype and the astogeny of the type specimens of the species Ascopora nodosa (Fischer von Waldheim, 1837), the diagnosis and species composition of the genus Ascopora Trautschold, 1876 are emended. The genus Ascopora and three species out of the five included in this genus—A. nodosa (Fischer von Waldheim, 1837); A. sokolovae Schulga-Nesterenko, 1955; and A. latiaxis Schulga-Nesterenko, 1955—are described. A new genus, Tetrasella gen. nov., with the type species T. blanda sp. nov. is described. This genus comprises five species, transferred from the composition of the genus Ascopora. An emended diagnosis of the genus Ascoporella Krutchinina, 1986, is provided. This genus comprises nine species, of which two, A. lecta sp. nov. and A. mera sp. nov., are described as new species.
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Original Russian Text © R.V. Gorjunova, 2010, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2010, No. 1, pp. 21–33.
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Gorjunova, R.V. On the Paleozoic bryozoans of the genus Ascopora Trautschold. Paleontol. J. 44, 21–35 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030110010041
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