†family Entalophoridae Reuss 1869 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Entalophoridae

Parent taxon: Tubuliporina according to M. ZatoĊ„ and P. D. Taylor 2010

See also Bassler 1911, Bassler 1953, Di Martino and Taylor 2014 and Gordon and Taylor 1999

Sister taxa: Cinctiporidae, Diaperoeciidae, Diastoporidae, Discocytis, Eleidae, Filisparsidae, Frondiporidae, Hastingsiidae, Mecynoeciidae, Multisparsidae, Oncousoeciidae, Plagioeciidae, Semiceidae, Serietubigera, Stomatoporidae, Telopora, Terviidae, Tubuliporidae

Subtaxa: Anguisia Bientalophora Bisidmonea Brachysoecia Cisternifera Clavisparsa Entalophora Exochoecia Microecia Nematifera Pergensia Peripora Pustulopora Umbrellina

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Type: Entalophora

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (1: California collection)

• Miocene of Egypt (1), Morocco (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)

• Oligocene of United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (1), Madagascar (6), United States (4: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of France (11), Germany (4), Madagascar (4), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of France (5), United States (2: Utah, Wyoming)

• Devonian of the Czech Republic (2)

Total: 54 collections including 84 occurrences

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