Plagioecia Canu 1918 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Plagioeciidae

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

See also Bassler 1953, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Guha 2013, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Hara and Taylor 2009, Lee et al. 1997 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Actinopora, Cardioecia, Cavaria, Desmatelesia, Hyporosopora, Laterotubigera, Liripora, Mesenteripora, Mesonopora, Notoplagioecia, Reticrisina, Semilaterotubigera, Stathmepora, Terebellaria, Tubigera, Wassypora

Subtaxa: Plagioecia compressa Plagioecia cristata Plagioecia phlyctaenosa Plagioecia rugosa Plagioecia taylori Plagioecia zatoni

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), Italy (3)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Morocco (2), Spain (1)

• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama)

• Eocene of India (3), New Zealand (3), United States (2: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), France (1), United States (3: Alabama, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (2), France (3), Germany (2), United States (3: Texas)

• Jurassic of France (11), Poland (2), Portugal (18), Romania (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4)

Total: 74 collections including 82 occurrences

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