Family Tetraplariidae Harmer 1957 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Tetraplariidae

Synonym: Bigemellariidae MacGillivray 1895

Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to D. P. Gordon 2012

See also Bock 2006 and Cheetham 1972

Sister taxa: Acoraniidae, Actisecidae, Bryobaculidae, Buffonellodidae, Calwelliidae, Cheiloporinidae, Cryptosulidae, Cyclicoporidae, Duvergieriidae, Echinovadomidae, Eminooeciidae, Escharinidae, Gigantoporidae, Hippaliosinidae, Hippopodinidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Margarettidae, Mawatariidae, Microporellidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Pacificincolidae, Petraliellidae, Petraliidae, Phoceanidae, Phorioppniidae, Porinidae, Robertsonidridae, Schizoporellidae, Schizoporellopsis, Stomachetosellidae, Teuchoporidae, Tshokrakopora, Vicidae

Subtaxa: Tetraplaria Tychinella

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Type: Tetraplaria

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Panama (1)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (4)

• Miocene of Australia (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)

• Eocene of India (1), Tonga (2), United States (6: Florida)

Total: 20 collections including 21 occurrences

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