REPORTED CAMBRIAN BRYOZOANS

None of the taxa cited below are now believed to be bryozoans although not all have been unequivocally been assigned to other phyla. [Version of 3 February 1997]

          ARCHAEOTRYPA PRIMA Fritz, 1947

             Species typica Archaeotrypa Fritz, 1947

             Cambrian, upper (Canada, Alberta)

               Dresbachian, Elvinia zone fide Fritz (1948)

               Genus considered indeterminate or unrecognizable in Utgaard (1983).

               Longitudinal section only.

          ARCHAEOTRYPA SECUNDA Fritz, 1947

             Cambrian, upper (Canada, Alberta)

               Dresbachian, Elvinia zone fide Fritz (1948)

               Genus considered indeterminate or unrecognizable in Utgaard (1983).

               Tangential section only.

          CAMBROPORELLA Korde, 1950

             Now assigned to algae fide Utgaard (1983, p. 439)

          CAMBROTRYPA MONTANENSIS Fritz & Howell, 1959

             Never called a bryozoan.  Probably a tabulate coral.

             Cambrian, middle (USA, Montana: Silver Hill Formation, Albertella zone)

          HETERONEMA PRISCUM Bassler, 1911

             Doubtfully bryozoan - Taylor

             Cambrian, upper (Esthonia: Ungulite Sandstone)

REFERENCES

Bassler, R. S.  1911.  The early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces.  United States

           National Museum Bulletin 77, 384 p., 13 pls., 234 figs. [23 December 1911]

Fritz, M. A.  1947.  Cambrian Bryozoa.  Journal of Paleontology, 21(5):434-435, pl. 60.

Fritz, M. A. 1948.  Cambrian Bryozoa more precisely dates. Journal of Paleontology, 22(3):373

Fritz, M. A. & B. F. Howell.  1959.  Cambrotrypa montanensis, a middle Cambrian fossil of possible

           coral affinities. Proceedings of the Geological Association of Canada 11:89-93, 1 pl.  [December 1959]