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A new family, Vidronovellidae, with a new genus, Vidronovella, and its type species V. fastigata sp. nov., and a new species, Europora gerirudensis, are described from the Famennian of Afghanistan, and the new species Primorella iranica, Heloclema magnificum, and Worthenopora elbursensis are described from the Viséan of Iran.
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Original Russian Text © R.V. Gorjunova, 2006, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2006, No. 6, pp. 43–51.
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Gorjunova, R.V. New bryozoans from the Devonian of Afghanistan and the Carboniferous of Iran. Paleontol. J. 40, 626–635 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030106060050
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