Superfamily Lepralielloidea Vigneaux 1949 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata

Parent taxon: Umbonulomorpha according to S. S. Brezina et al. 2021

See also Berning 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon et al. 1994, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007 and Schmidt 2003

Sister taxa: Arachnopusioidea, Batoporoidea

Subtaxa: Bryocryptellidae Eoporella Jaculinidae Lepraliellidae Romancheinidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), Greece (2), Greenland (5), Italy (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (4), Panama (1), United States (10: California, Florida, North Carolina)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (4), Australia (2), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (6), Portugal (1), Spain (3)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (6)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (4), Colombia (4), the Czech Republic (14), Egypt (1), France (7), Germany (5), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Malta (2), Morocco (2), New Zealand (4), Panama (2), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Spain (9), Ukraine (2)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (6)

• Oligocene of Australia (7), Germany (1), New Zealand (2), United States (11: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Eocene of India (2), New Zealand (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (34: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)

• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (3), Denmark (1), France (1), Sweden (1)

• Cretaceous of Australia (2), United States (6: Arkansas, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee)

Total: 206 collections including 470 occurrences

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