New bryozoan species from the Pleistocene of the Wanganui Basin, North Island, New Zealand

  • Emanuela Di Martino Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
  • Paul D. Taylor Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
  • Dennis P. Gordon National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington
  • Lee Hsiang Liow Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.345
Keywords: Pleistocene, Recent, Ctenostomata, Cheilostomata, bioimmuration

Abstract

Three new fossil bryozoan species, a ctenostome and two cheilostomes, are described and figured from Pleistocene strata of the Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. Buskia waiinuensis sp. nov., a soft-body ctenostome preserved as a mould bioimmuration, is the first fossil record of the genus from New Zealand. Microporella rusti sp. nov., which is notable for the lack of ooecia in the large suite of colonies available, is one of the most common bryozoans in the Nukumaru Limestone and Nukumaru Brown Sand shellbeds, forming large encrusting sheet-like colonies, but is uncommon in younger beds. Rare, small-sized colonies of Parkermavella columnaris sp. nov. were found as fossil in two Quaternary beds, the Nukumaru Limestone and the Upper Kai-Iwi Shellbed, and also alive on rocks from the greater Cook Strait area.

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Published
2017-08-22
How to Cite
Di Martino, E., Taylor, P. D., Gordon, D. P., & Liow, L. H. (2017). New bryozoan species from the Pleistocene of the Wanganui Basin, North Island, New Zealand. European Journal of Taxonomy, (345). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.345
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No. 345 (2017): New bryozoan species from the Pleistocene of the Wanganui Basin, North Island, New Zealand
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