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Members of the order Rhabdomesida (Bryozoa) are for the first time recorded in the Emsian Stage (Lower Devonian) and Eifelian Stage (Middle Devonian) of the Altai-Sayan Folded Area. The assemblage of Emsian Rhabdomesida of the Salair Ridge and Gorny Altai comprises three new species of the genera previously only known from the Lower-Middle Devonian deposits of Western Europe and West Africa: Paracuneatopora egregia sp. nov., P. kuvaschensis sp. nov., and Lenapora gurievensis sp. nov. In addition, this assemblage includes Nematopora rara sp. nov. and new species of a new genus, Salairella gen. nov.—S. petaloida sp. nov., S. variabilis sp. nov., and S. maculata sp. nov. Two new species, Salairella baskuskanensis sp. nov. and S. recta sp. nov., are described from the Eifelian Stage of the Salair Ridge and the Frasnian Stage of Rudny Altai, respectively.
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Original Russian Text © O.P. Mesentseva, 2015, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2015, No. 2, pp. 27–35.
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Mesentseva, O.P. New data on Devonian Rhabdomesida (Bryozoans) from the Salair Ridge and Gorny and Rudny Altai. Paleontol. J. 49, 134–144 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030115020033
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