Schizoporella sowerbyi Guha and Gipikrishna 2007 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae

Full reference: A. K. Guha and K. Gipikrishna. 2007. New fossil steginoporellid and schizoporellid species (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the Tertiary sequences of western Kachchh, Gujarat and their significance. Journal of the Geological Society of India 69:803-812

Belongs to Schizoporella according to A. K. Guha and K. Gipikrishna 2007

Sister taxa: Schizoporella arcana, Schizoporella baini, Schizoporella butleri, Schizoporella clypeata, Schizoporella cumulata, Schizoporella doverensis, Schizoporella dunkeri, Schizoporella filiformis, Schizoporella geminipora, Schizoporella glebosa, Schizoporella informata, Schizoporella latisinuata, Schizoporella longirostris, Schizoporella ludbrookae, Schizoporella macgillivrayi, Schizoporella magnifica, Schizoporella mcbeanensis, Schizoporella orbiculifera, Schizoporella oviseparata, Schizoporella parvisinuata, Schizoporella pustulosa, Schizoporella roberti, Schizoporella scissa, Schizoporella sinudentata, Schizoporella spectabilis, Schizoporella submersa, Schizoporella subquadrata, Schizoporella suffugium, Schizoporella tenuilamellosa, Schizoporella tetragona, Schizoporella unicornis

Type specimen: GSI K60/802. Its type locality is Khari Nadi Fm, which is in an Aquitanian marine limestone/siltstone in the Khari Nadi Formation of India.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of India (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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