Family Cerioporidae Busk 1859 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Cerioporidae

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

See also Bassler 1953, Gordon and Taylor 2015 and Schmidt 2003

Sister taxa: Cavidae, Corymboporidae, Densiporidae, Heteroporidae, Leiosoeciidae, Tretocycloeciidae

Subtaxa: Ceriopora Clausa Diplocava Heteropora Reticrescis Tholopora

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Type: Ceriopora

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (3: California, Oregon collections)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1)

• Miocene of the Czech Republic (4), Germany (2)

• Eocene of New Zealand (1), United States (1: Mississippi)

• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Denmark (1), United States (6: Alabama, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (4), Egypt (2), France (40), Germany (4), Switzerland (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (7: Alabama, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of Chile (1), Germany (2), Portugal (1), Romania (1)

• Triassic of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alaska)

• Permian of Australia (1), Bolivia (1)

Total: 94 collections including 127 occurrences

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