Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Synonyms: Farcimia Fleming 1828, Melicerita Jullien 1888, Salicornaria Schweigger 1819
Parent taxon: Cellariidae according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Cheetham 1972, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Lee et al. 1997, Pouyet 2000, Schmidt 2003, Sepkoski 2002, Squires and Demetrion 1992, Stach 1936, Stach 1936 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Acerinucleus, Atelestozoum, Cryptostomaria, Dimorphocellaria, Erinella, Escharicellaria, Euginoma, Hemistylus, Larvapora, Melicerita, Mesostomaria, Pseudocellaria, Smitticellaria, Stomhypselosaria, Syringotrema
Subtaxa: Cellaria adamantina Cellaria attenuata Cellaria australis Cellaria biaperta Cellaria bicornis Cellaria bicuspidata Cellaria contigua Cellaria cucullata Cellaria dennanti Cellaria depressa Cellaria elementaria Cellaria enormis Cellaria fistulosa Cellaria gigas Cellaria grandis Cellaria immersa Cellaria inarticulata Cellaria melillensis Cellaria minus Cellaria mitrata Cellaria myaringensis Cellaria orbicularia Cellaria palatum Cellaria perampla Cellaria perexigua Cellaria pilosa Cellaria rigida Cellaria robusta Cellaria setigera Cellaria stachi Cellaria tenuirostris Cellaria tumida Cellaria variabilis Cellaria veteripontis Melicerita angustiloba
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (4 collections), Costa Rica (3), Greece (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (1), United States (6: California)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (4), Australia (6), Belgium (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (4), Spain (3), United States (2: California)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (13)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (7), the Czech Republic (13), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (5), Morocco (2), New Zealand (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (5), Ukraine (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (11)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), Germany (2), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (5), Tonga (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Cenozoic of Australia (5)
Total: 126 collections including 237 occurrences
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