Abstract
AbstractThe taxonomy of Zeapora Penecke, 1894 has a long but inconsistent taxonomic history. Originally identified as cyclostomate bryozoan, it was later assigned to the trepostomate bryozoans, amphiporid stromatoporoids, thamnoporid tabulate corals and dasycladacean algae before it was finally classified as Halimedaceae or Udoteaceae. Based on newly collected material from the type locality in the Graz Paleozoic (Eastern Alps, Austria) the taxonomic description of the type species Z. gracilis is emended and the udoteacean genus Litanaella Schuysky & Schirschova, 1987 is placed in synonymy with Zeapora. Following this opinion, Zeapora remains no longer endemic in the alpine Noric Terrane but shows a peculiar circum‐tropical distribution during the Early to Middle Devonian similar to modern Halimeda.
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