Family Bitectiporidae MacGillivray 1895 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae

Parent taxon: Smittinoidea according to B. Berning 2006

See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Gordon et al. 1994, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007 and Schmidt 2003

Sister taxa: Smittinidae, Watersiporidae

Subtaxa: Bitectipora Hippoporina Schizomavella

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Type: Bitectipora

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Italy (3), New Zealand (1), United States (8: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Greece (1), New Zealand (4), Panama (4), Portugal (1), Spain (3)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (8)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), the Czech Republic (8), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (1), Romania (1), Spain (5)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)

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

• Eocene of New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (12: Alabama, Florida, Georgia)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: Alabama)

Total: 88 collections including 129 occurrences

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