Superfamily Microporoidea Gray 1848 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata

Parent taxon: Flustrina according to S. S. Brezina et al. 2021

See also Berning 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2013, Di Martino and Taylor 2014, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Guha and Gipikrishna 2007, Koromyslova and Seltser 2020, Schmidt 2003, Taylor and Martha 2017 and Zágoršek and Kroh 2003

Sister taxa: Buguloidea, Calloporoidea, Cribrilinoidea, Flustroidea, Monoporelloidea, Thalamoporelloidea, Umbonulomorpha

Subtaxa: Aspidostomatidae Cianotremella Coscinopleuridae Lunulitidae Microporidae Onychocellidae

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Type: Micropora

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), Greece (1), Greenland (2), Italy (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (6), United States (8: California, Florida, South Carolina)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (5), Greece (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (4), Panama (2), Portugal (1), Spain (3)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (14)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (8), Brazil (10), Colombia (2), Cyprus (1), the Czech Republic (9), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (33), Hungary (1), India (3), Indonesia (3), Malta (4), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2), Panama (1), Portugal (2), Romania (2), Spain (9), Trinidad and Tobago (3)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (8)

• Oligocene of Australia (2), Germany (6), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), United States (13: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Eocene of France (1), India (4), New Zealand (5), the United Kingdom (8), United States (57: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)

• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)

• Cenozoic of Australia (3)

• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Austria (2), Denmark (3), New Zealand (1), Sweden (1), United States (6: Alabama, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Austria (1), Belarus (1), Belgium (3), the Czech Republic (2), Denmark (26), France (7), Germany (22), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (3), North Atlantic (1), the Russian Federation (4), Turkmenistan (4), the United Kingdom (21), United States (5: Arkansas, California, Tennessee, Texas), Uzbekistan (3)

Total: 391 collections including 715 occurrences

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