Superfamily Calloporoidea Norman 1903 (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 Gopikrishna 2007, Koromyslova and Seltser 2020, Schmidt 2003, Taylor and Martha 2017 and Zágoršek and Kroh 2003

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

Subtaxa: Antroporidae Bryopastoridae Calloporidae Chaperiidae Foveolariidae Heliodomidae Hiantoporidae Pyrisinellidae

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Type: Callopora

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Greece (1), Greenland (4), Italy (2), Mexico (3), New Zealand (5), United States (4: California, Florida)

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

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (11)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Argentina (2), Australia (3), Colombia (2), the Czech Republic (8), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), India (7), Indonesia (7), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (2), Romania (1), Spain (9), Trinidad and Tobago (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (6)

• Oligocene of Australia (3), New Zealand (1), United States (9: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Eocene of Colombia (1), India (6), Namibia (1), New Zealand (5), Tonga (1), United States (15: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)

• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)

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

• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), Austria (1), the Czech Republic (4), France (1), Germany (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (20: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 204 collections including 468 occurrences

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