Family Trypostegidae Gordon et al. 2005 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Trypostegidae

Parent taxon: Hippothooidea according to E. Di Martino and P. D. Taylor 2013

See also Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon 2012 and Guha and Gopikrishna 2007

Sister taxa: Chorizoporidae, Dysnoetoporidae, Haplopomidae, Hippothoidae, Pasytheidae

Subtaxa: Boreas Boreasina Diplotresis Eohippothoa Grammothoa Kronothoa Kunradina Mosathoa Rectoporina Tricolpopora Trilophopora Trypostega

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Type: Trypostega

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (1: Florida collection)

• Pliocene of Greece (1)

• Miocene of Colombia (1), France (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Morocco (1), Panama (2), Romania (1), Spain (3)

• Oligocene of United States (9: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Eocene of United States (3: Alabama, Florida)

• Cretaceous of the Netherlands (1)

Total: 27 collections including 28 occurrences

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