Spiroporina deliqua Cheetham 1972 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Spiroporinidae

Full reference: A. H. Cheetham. 1972. Cheilostome Byrozoa of Late Eocene age from Eua, Tonga. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (640-E)

Belongs to Spiroporina according to A. H. Cheetham 1972

Sister taxa: Spiroporina kondoi, Spiroporina pentagona, Spiroporina polypora, Spiroporina tenuis

Type specimen: USNM 169260. Its type locality is Sample 1, station 24686, collected by Y. Kendo 1967, which is in a Priabonian slope limestone/limestone in Tonga.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Sample 1, station 24686, collected by Y. Kendo 1967

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