Onychocella Jullien 1882 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae

Synonym: Reptocelleporaria D'Orbigny

Parent taxon: Onychocellidae according to P. D. Taylor and S. O. Martha 2017

See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Brown 1958, Di Martino and Taylor 2013, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Guha 2013, Holmes 1860, Pouyet 2000, Schmidt 2003, Sepkoski 2002, Voigt 1981 and Zágoršek and Kroh 2003

Sister taxa: Aechmella, Cheethamia, Chondriovelum, Collura, Distefanella, Ehrhardina, Euritina, Floridina, Floridinella, Hoplitaechmella, Hoplocheilina, Inversaria, Nudicella, Ogiva, Ogivalia, Paraechmellina, Reptolunulites, Rhagasostoma, Rhebasia, Semieschara, Smittipora, Thyracella

Subtaxa: Onychocella angulosa Onychocella cyclostoma Onychocella depressa Onychocella lamellosa Onychocella michaudiana Onychocella pseudoirregularis Onychocella reussi Onychocella spinifera Onychocella subtriangulata Onychocella torquata

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Greece (1), Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Portugal (1), Spain (3)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), the Czech Republic (7), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Morocco (3), Romania (1), Spain (8)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)

• Eocene of India (2), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Mississippi)

• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)

• Paleocene of Austria (2), Denmark (2), Sweden (1)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (4), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 55 collections including 69 occurrences

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