Meanings
- not comparableHaving the form of a vinculum.
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
All species having non-fenestrate, rigidly erect colonies, with either subcylindrical or bilaminate trunks and branches (vinculariiform and eschariform colonies, respectively), or closely encrusting (membraniporiform) colonies were regarded as unstable.
1971, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, page 6The 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 71
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