Hallopora

{{Short description|Extinct genus of moss animals}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Hallopora multitabulata fossil bryozoan (Ordovician; Frankfort IL.jpg

| image_caption = Hallopora multitabulata, Ordovician, Frankfort, Illinois

| taxon = Hallopora

| authority = Bassler, 1911

| synonyms = * Callopora {{small|Hall, 1851}}

}}

Image:Bryozoa_Hallopora1.jpg, Washington, DC]]

Hallopora is an extinct genus of bryozoans of the family Halloporidae, first identified from the Lower Silurian period.{{cite journal |last1=Ernst |first1=Andrej |last2=Brett |first2=Carlton E. |last3=Wilson |first3=Mark A. |title=Bryozoan fauna from the Reynales Formation (lower Silurian, Aeronian) of New York, USA |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=2019 |volume=93 |issue=4 |pages=628–657 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2018.101|bibcode=2019JPal...93..628E |s2cid=135188343 |doi-access=free }} They can be found in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky of the Midwestern United States, commonly in the Ordovician Kope Formation.

Species

  • Hallopora elegantula (Hall, 1852)
  • Hallopora baltica
  • Hallopora magnopora

References