Heteropora de Blainville 1830 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Cerioporidae

Parent taxon: Cerioporidae according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015

See also Bassler 1953, Schmidt 2003 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Ceriopora, Clausa, Diplocava, Reticrescis, Tholopora

Subtaxa: Heteropora pisiformis Heteropora scholzi Heteropora verrucosa

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (3: California, Oregon collections)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1)

• Miocene of the Czech Republic (3), Germany (1)

• Eocene of New Zealand (1), United States (1: Mississippi)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of France (31), Germany (3), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Tennessee)

• Jurassic of Chile (1)

• Triassic of United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 54 collections including 56 occurrences

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