Puellina (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cribrilinidae

Parent taxon: Cribrilinidae according to P. Bock 2006

See also Bassler 1953, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Guha 2013, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Lee et al. 1997, Pouyet 2000 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acanthocella, Anaskopora, Anornithopora, Antoniettella, Argopora, Calpidopora, Collarina, Corbulipora, Costula, Cribralaria, Cribrendoecium, Cribrilaria, Cribrilina, Escharipora, Figularia, Filaguria, Gephyrotes, Graptoporella, Hayamiellina, Jolietina, Jullienula, Lepralina, Leptocheilopora, Membraniporella, Metracolposa, Monoceratopora, Mumiella, Otopora, Pachydera, Pelmatopora, Phractoporella, Pleuroschizella, Pliophloea, Reginella, Reptescharella, Reptescharipora, Rhabdopora, Scorpiodina, Tricephalopora

Subtaxa: Puellina bontangensis Puellina larwoodi Puellina voigti

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Italy (3), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Pliocene of Portugal (1), Spain (2)

• Miocene of the Czech Republic (4), France (1), Germany (1), Indonesia (2), Romania (1), Spain (7)

• Oligocene of United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Eocene of India (2), New Zealand (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 39 collections including 56 occurrences

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