Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Margarettidae
Synonyms: Onchopora Busk 1852, Tubucellaria d'Orbigny 1852
Parent taxon: Margarettidae according to K. Zagorsek and D. P. Gordon 2013
See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon 2012, Guha 2013, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Sepkoski 2002 and Stach 1936
Sister taxon: Tubucella
Subtaxa: Margaretta amitabhae Margaretta fusiformis Margaretta gracilior Margaretta rajui Margaretta tenuis Margaretta watersi Tubucellaria cereoides Tubucellaria hirsuta Tubucellaria opuntioides
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Greece (2), United States (6: California)
• Pliocene of Australia (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (2), Czechia (3), India (4), Indonesia (3), Panama (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Oman (1), United States (9: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of United States (10: Alabama, Florida)
• Cenozoic of Australia (2)
Total: 53 collections including 60 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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