†family Diastoporidae Busk 1859 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae

Parent taxon: Tubuliporina according to K. Zágoršek and A. Kroh 2003

See also Bassler 1911, Bassler 1953, Brown 1956 and Guha and Gopikrishna 2007

Sister taxa: Cinctiporidae, Diaperoeciidae, Discocytis, Eleidae, Entalophoridae, Filisparsidae, Frondiporidae, Hastingsiidae, Mecynoeciidae, Multisparsidae, Oncousoeciidae, Plagioeciidae, Semiceidae, Serietubigera, Stomatoporidae, Telopora, Terviidae, Tubuliporidae

Subtaxa: Atelesopora Berenicea Bidiastopora Cellulipora Clinopora Desmeplagioecia Diastopora Diastoporina Discosparsa Elaphopora Fascipora Flabellotrypa Osburnostylus Retelea Reticulipora Rhipidopora Rosacilla Sagenella Semifascipora Siphoniotyphlus Spiropora Tubigerina

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Type: Diastopora

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Antarctica (3 collections), Australia (1)

• Miocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (1), Ukraine (1)

• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama)

• Eocene of India (3)

• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Denmark (1), Madagascar (4)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Chile (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (30), Germany (4), Japan (2), Madagascar (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Tennessee)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of China (1)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Ethiopia (2), France (5), Germany (7), India (5), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (4), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Wyoming)

• Triassic of Iran (2), Italy (1)

• Silurian of Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Ordovician of United States (13: Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania)

Total: 127 collections including 145 occurrences

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