. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). FARINGDON SPONGE GRAVEI, BRYOZOA 129. Figs 140-141 Reptomulticava brydonei (Gregory), optical photographs. Fig. 140, BM(NH) D77753, x 4-2. Fig. 141, BM(NH) D55325, young colony encrusting a bivalve shell, X 11-5. echinoid spines or soft-bodied substrates. Small shell frag- ments were also occasionally used but the species has not been found among the diverse encrusting bryozoan fauna developed on sponges or pebbles. Genus. REPTOMULTICAVA d'Orbigny, 1854 Type species. Reptomulticava pyriformis d'Orbigny, 1854, designated herein; Vala
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). FARINGDON SPONGE GRAVEI, BRYOZOA 129. Figs 140-141 Reptomulticava brydonei (Gregory), optical photographs. Fig. 140, BM(NH) D77753, x 4-2. Fig. 141, BM(NH) D55325, young colony encrusting a bivalve shell, X 11-5. echinoid spines or soft-bodied substrates. Small shell frag- ments were also occasionally used but the species has not been found among the diverse encrusting bryozoan fauna developed on sponges or pebbles. Genus. REPTOMULTICAVA d'Orbigny, 1854 Type species. Reptomulticava pyriformis d'Orbigny, 1854, designated herein; Valanginian, Ste Croix, Switzerland. Remarks. Reptomulticava was founded by d'Orbigny (1854) who assigned 12 described species (4 of them new) and a further 16 listed species to the genus. The type species of this genus is usually given as Alveolites heteropora Roemer, 1839 ( Bassler 1953; Hillmer 1971), which appears to have been selected as the type by Gregory (1909a). However, as Alveolites heteropora is not among the 28 species assigned by d'Orbigny (1854) to Reptomulticava in his original description of this genus, it has no validity as the type species. Therefore, Reptomulticava pyriformis d'Orbigny, 1854 is here designated as the type species of Reptomulticava. R. pyriformis, re- described by Walter (1972), was not only included in the original description of Reptomulticava, but it also seems to correspond with the general useage of the name Reptomulti- cava ( Hillmer 1971; Hillmer, Gauticr & McKinncy 1975; Nye & Lemone 1978). Range. Valanginian to ?Maastrichtian. Reptomulticava brydonei (Gregory, 1909/?) Figs 140-143 71854 Reptomulticava collis d'Orbigny: 1036; pi. 792, figs 1-3. 19()9/j Zonatula brydonei Gregory: 64. 1909« Zonatula hrvdonei Gregory; Grcgorv: 215; pi. 4, fig. 10. 19()9(; Ceriopora collis (d'Orbigny); Gregory: 163; pi. 5, figs 5a-b. 1926 Reptomulticava funi^iformis Grcgorv; C'anu Bassler: 29; pi. 24. tigs 14 17 ( '11 13). HOLOTYPE. BM(NH) 10
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