Meanings
- not comparableResembling the fossil bryozoan Adeona, especially in forming a colony that is lobate and bilamellar.
In both faunas, the dominant zoarial types are catenicelliform, followed by the cellariiform, adeoniform, and vinculariiform.
1969, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (page 812)2 more examples
The Aliso Viejo cheilostome branches represent the adeoniform (originally included within the vinculariiform) zoarial growth form, which today occurs predominantly on deeper shelf […] bottoms, in quiet water with slow sedimentation […]
1981, Gilbert Powell Larwood, Claus Nielsen, Recent and Fossil Bryozoa: Papers Presented at the 5th International Conference on Bryozoa, Durham, 1980, page 71The community of bryozoans associated with the rhizomes comprises 49 species. The most common fragments belong to an adeoniform species, […]
2012, Andrej Ernst, Priska Schäfer, Joachim Scholz, Bryozoan Studies 2010, page 187
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