Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Synonym: Membraniporina
Parent taxon: Membraniporidae according to R. S. Bassler 1953
See also Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Canu and Bassler 1920, Canu and Bassler 1935, Sepkoski 2002 and Ulrich and Bassler 1904
Sister taxa: Acanthodesia, Adenifera, Biflustra, Cellarinidra, Desmacystis, Exostesia, Gregarinidra, Heliodoma, Nitscheina, Pseudostege, Quadricellaria, Synaptacella, Tamanicella, Trochopora, Reussirella, Discoporella, Cupuladria, Vibracellina, Biselenaria
Subtaxa: Membranipora ancarteri Membranipora areolata Membranipora bifoliata Membranipora caminosa Membranipora crespinae Membranipora deborahae Membranipora fistula Membranipora fossulifera Membranipora germana Membranipora longipes Membranipora nitidula Membranipora oblongula Membranipora parvula Membranipora pegma Membranipora striata Membranipora tenuis Membranipora tuberculata Membraniporina canalifera Membraniporina rimulata Membraniporina sinesolum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (8: California, Maryland, Virginia collections)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Jamaica (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (4)
• Miocene of Australia (1), the Czech Republic (6), French Southern Territories (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Ukraine (4), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), United States (2: Alabama)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), Egypt (1), New Zealand (1), United States (3: Alabama, Florida)
• Paleocene of Denmark (2), Sweden (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (6), Brazil (1), France (1), United States (10: Arizona, Kansas, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 61 collections including 79 occurrences
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