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Bolopora not a bryozoan, but an Ordovician phosphatic, oncolitic accretion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. J. Hofmann
H. J. Hofmann
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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Summary

The supposed cyclostome bryozoan Bolopora undosa Lewis 1926 is reinterpreted as a chemogenic and/or bacteriogenic dubiofossil.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 112 , Issue 5 , September 1975 , pp. 523 - 526
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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