Family Lichenoporidae Smitt 1867 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Lichenoporidae

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

See also Bassler 1953, Di Martino and Taylor 2014, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Lee et al. 1997, Schmidt 2003, Smith et al. 2006 and Zágoršek and Kroh 2003

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Actinotaxia Conocavea Cuvilliera Disporella Favosipora Flosculipora Lichenopora Multigalea Orosopora Patinella Radiocavaria Stellocavea Trochiliopora

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Type: Lichenopora

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (2 collections), Greece (1), Greenland (1), Italy (3), United States (2: California, South Carolina)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Greece (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Brazil (2), the Czech Republic (12), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Indonesia (3), Morocco (2), Romania (1), Spain (1)

• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama)

• Eocene of New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi)

• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Denmark (1)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (25), Germany (1), Madagascar (1), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 87 collections including 112 occurrences

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