†family Antroporidae Vigneaux 1949 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Antroporidae

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

See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2014 and Gordon 2012

Sister taxa: Bryopastoridae, Calloporidae, Chaperiidae, Cupuladriidae, Doryporellidae, Ellisinidae, Filiflustrina, Fissuricella, Foveolariidae, Heliodomidae, Hiantoporidae, Parastichopora, Pseudolunularia, Pyrisinellidae, Stichopora, Tendridae

Subtaxa: Akatopora Antropora Craspedopora Lateroflustrella Parantropora Rosseliana Samudraka

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Type: Antropora

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Italy (2), Mexico (3), United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), Panama (5), Portugal (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Colombia (1), India (2), Indonesia (5), Panama (2), Spain (1)

• Oligocene of Malta (2), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Eocene of New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (10: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi)

• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (2), United States (5: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Austria (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: Alabama)

Total: 66 collections including 85 occurrences

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